SILENCE RAVING
Clayton Eshleman
Patters, paters, Apollo globes, sound
breaking up with silence, coals
I can still hear, entanglement of sense pools,
the way a cave might leak perfume--
in the Cro-Magnons went, along its wet hide walls,
as if a flower in, way in, drew their leggy
panspermatic bodies, spidering over
bottomless hunches, groping toward Persephone's fate:
to be quicksanded by the fungus pulp of Hades' purple hair
exploding in their brains.
They poured their foreheads into the coals and corrals
zigzagged about in the night air--
the animals led in crossed
a massive vulva incised before the gate,
the power that came up from it was paradise, the power
the Cro-Magnons bequeathed to us:
to make an altar of our throats.
The first words were mixed with animal fat,
wounded men tried to say who did it.
The group was the rim of a to-be-invented wheel,
their speech was spokes, looping over,
around, the hub of the fire, its silk of us,
its burn of them, bop we dip, you dip,
we dip to you, you will dip to us, Dionysus
the plopping, pooling words, stirred
by the lyre gaps between the peaks of flame,
water to fire, us to them.
Foal-eyes, rubbery, they looped
back into those caves whose walls could be strung
between their teeth, the sticky soul material pulled to
The sides by their hands, ooh
what bone looms they sewed themselves into, ah
what tiny male spiders they were
on the enormous capable of devouring them
female rock elastic word!
1)jon swift's blog was a great one - it turns out that at least some of his archives can be seen if you are willing to be extremely patient while they take a very long time to load - i found a comment by me - in which i perform my habitual 'footnote' move on the phrase 'gird one's loins'
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when you finally get there, even the blogrolls work - one link leads to a 'quote of the day' taken from gene robinson of the washpost - as he aptly put it, for the republican party of today to rise phoenixlike from the ashes, it first must burn to the ground - and that hasn't happened yet
2)i don't recall how i first got to this blog - maybe a link of a link from fafblog!, of blessed memory, or perhaps some other semirandom metaphorical perigrination [all the while on this selfsame couch, purchased at m__________ ward in the 20th century, now located in m_________ village, regrettably no longer shared by companion animals] - thanks for tolerating my comments
Hang in there, buddy. It's only going to get even worse.
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Thudner! What a wonderful BAD present. Do you still Cacapon?
DeleteFine Hamnesty abounds!
ReplyDeleteA Meme slide was posted years ago, showing a picture taken at Comicon of ~ 50 individuals dressed as Imperial Stormtroopers, marching, and the caption: 'FASCISM: You Really Think It Will Look Like This?'
ReplyDeleteUm, yes.