Caleb,
This poem reads like a novel, a miniature. one. I
found myself totally absorbed and didn't want the poem
to end.
Candice
--- joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Damn fine.
>
> 10 of 10 stars and then an extra star for
> "palliasse."
>
>
> Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: As I
> walked out in the morning rain,
> Walking with my girlie,
> The birds who guard the lazy dead
> were cautious of the early.
>
> "Where do you walk in the morning rain,
> you there with your girlie?"
> The scissor-grinder turned his head,
> the hare flew from the barley.
>
> "I'm walking from the charnel house,
> I'm walking from the brothel.
> I've spent the night in carnal bliss
> on the floor of a filthy hovel."
>
> A jackdaw cracked the skull of a mouse,
> the scorpion fled to Bethel.
> A ladder shone in the scungy mist,
> the carpenter dropped his chisel.
>
> The rain, it hissed an adder,
> my girlie and I were brave;
> we were searching for a palliasse,
> not a mud-laced grave.
>
> My girlie she grabbed the ladder,
> the chisel was harder to save,
> swimming in the long grass
> and the holes where dead lovers are laid.
>
> The rungs of the ladder were oily,
> The holes were endless deep.
> The birds had fixed on my girlie
> and the stones where prophets sleep.
>
> The ladder stretched to heaven,
> but the angels who held it were cheap.
> They chopped at the rungs with the chisel
> the jackdaw had brought with his beak.
>
> Caleb Cluff
> Majorca, Vic
> 4/7/07
>
>
>
>
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