Shouts of Blankness

      When nothing is left but divinity
      And each man shouts to the next: "Look!
      We are become the human angels!"
      Wings made fabulous-- disasters surpassing 
5     imagination!      
      Abominable, the bricks of this image.
      All will be re-constructed, in Paradise.
                       At the discretion of no God
                       Do I spin and unfurl;
10    What is the hypothesis of passion?
      The inextricable answer in the diamond.
      "I am the unnamable silver,
                                   past continuation,
      I march beyond continent and clime.
15    I sing without vocable glitter."
                     A death that was reasonable shimmers
                      Shining ignored in a dirty  jade pool.
       Men will that day become?
       Men will that day become?
20     Tales and fables melt to insignificance;
       Palaces disappear in a maze of flames.
       Men will that day become what?
                     I woke up in an ecstatic ditch;
                     I don't know very much about it.
25     The disingenuous suffer overmuch.
       The rhetoric of Democracies!
       Very commendable!
                    And after the Sousas and  oompahs....
                    And after the senses to  emphasize
30                                                    what  blankness?

 

From the collection "Ascent"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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