Kaspar
I'd echo, appropriate verb, Martin's comment on the mind's ear.
2009/5/7 Martin Walker <[log in to unmask]>
> I really enjoyed this, Kasper - it sounds terrific in the mind's ear. The
> French reference is pertinent, too - I hear a bit of post-Bâteau Ivre
> surrealist phantasy, while "clerical, spherical" & other turns remind me of
> that great symbolist poet Edward Lear...
> mj
> Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
> H.L.Mencken
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> From: kasper salonen
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> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 12:06 AM
> Subject: poem, notsnap
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> écrit par moi.
> best read slowly, I find. first iteration.
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> NOON'S LOOMS
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> noon's looms
> string loose taut bones,
> and set fire to the stones
> in the street's roofless rooms.
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> noon's looms
> spin nuclear & worn,
> and blare their bloated horns
> over clear, lazy fumes--
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> trees are opening the palms of their hands,
> with their lines of fate
> borne low with the waiting leaves' weight
> & drawn on the noon-air's sand.
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> birds are screaming and surprise themselves
> with their leaps & caresses & fights;
> their wings are still much too bright
> and the winds are collapsing shelves.
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> men in the road are all clear as glass,
> worn through & see-through, with wine in their lungs.
> their bloated arms are rusting guns
> and the dreams that they dream are gas.
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> noon's looms
> tidy up their strings & their lamps,
> and the routes on their clerical, spherical maps
> curve off... tomorrow to a fierce, dull bloom.
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> KS
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--
David Bircumshaw
"Nothing can be done in the face
of ordinary unhappiness" - PP
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