Socketless and sailor In the world's winded veins Scented genesis and coffinsilk I mock the soberest cockerel 5 Diving from the prism_spitting Pinnacle of the world's mast Uselessly singing And rant like a wronged girl All my sweetest notes 10 Over ignorant houses Slumbered in death and morning light. Out of the closeted shout this echo beats Features of a sinning man on tin 15 More pressed to anguish in a dial's sigh Than any victim of time heretically cried Has been bludgeoned by suns Or a pauper's bliss been Crimped in a penny's fear 20 Or any tale of the world Cauled in a scorpion's sting Has twisted its smile on a man's side Or any climbed tirade Spoken in wishes 25 That nature's weary fabulist Set down. Graveturning in wishes As a wish is a kiss 30 My manbones shriek In blooded inks Out of a rage welled and calmed As any bird's ratcheted turn Over the thumbing sea at dawn 35 Crawls at clouds In inching desire as each wingbeat clips Over measured cessations Chewing ships and bones to flour. 40 Out of each brick The cold dawn shakes And each root tooth of daisies Cragged in the fingering spring Floods pulse and fever 45 To ramshackle gods agog As saints in whispers Each aghast their closed wings keep Singing of statuary And the boiling joy 50 Of the devil's boyish kiss. So I this saintly mort cry down And each nailed lip kiss Quagmired in hatred 55 Tried and hung, on pentecostal cross and hatch Birthing the blood plant Insisting in stitches For this world the word's wound. So I, crumbling on windfall, 60 On sold bones and the tarot told Watch hatred disaster, man and god fall, And all loved things end.
From the collection "Constellations in December"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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