Thursday, December 17, 2020

mmmc

nor legends       (nor some stolen words)                                  
                                (for Gerrit Lansing)

to be forgiven in the air
the whole seizure
bequeathed of new silhouettes
now dirty o dark breathless rhyme some night
blue sounds wrench
pop into blood the happy Charles
the wind in our heads

across the blinded avenue
in the filthy daylight roar of
our latest deadly scourge
was a sexual blank-blank
it let in the feelings of
spring (our spring re-
flexes giddily sprung)
but you’d never soothe
the legendary dark 
December days nor
their out-wooded elfs 
lessen it be performed 
a wild and mythical secret

o beautiful furry solace
against a drenchéd boulevard
the colors of the hairy roses
near the sea’s bailiwick

of love           the change
of the sky           what plunks
o don’t even try           to get it all in

penguin