Valhalla, Vonnegut, Etc.

      The ritual errata and recovery of existence
      shocks us still. Wars horrors concentrate
      the false scent in the cloth daisy mailed here,
      pie_eyed and plangent by my breakfast plate;
5     the wrong NJ air smells cool_soulled. Things smash:
      Vonnegut in a cooler when Dresden's shelled---
      cold sweat flashed on his back, soaked.
      The uneaten egg must stare and water. Dry ash,
      dry ash, and the city flat as a pancake. Flagged,
10    alive and dragged back, he was glad enough to laugh....
      The eye rolls and fixes its sights, a white
      and blue prayerbead thumbed by a blue God. I'm glad
      enough for that diaphanous freedom to just die & glide....
      This chord of being's too dumbly thrubbed.
15    Saturated in cold sweat, and rife with rarity,
      I sing bird and beast, animal or man, trapped.

 

From the collection "Contemporaries"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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