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Reply To: | BP - "It's a bit disgusting, but a great experience...." -- Squirrel" < [log in to unmask]> |
Date: | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:12:12 EDT |
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A BLACK BURNT ALARM CLOCK
hangs from a twenty-penny nail in my basement
next to the broken clothes washer,
a reminder of our late nite converse --
magellanic arguments, Xenophobic poems,
to circumnavigate an hermetic egg.
Talismanic reactions of glossalia,
along with too many stovepipe buds,
vibrating a blue ether between us.
Smoke of incense curling frosted window,
another hardwood slab cast in stove
glowing coals, red lit
between two hard assed poets.
At a quarter-to-five this cold morning,
while wife and son sleep,
an automatic light goes on outside,
for a shepherd marking scent on tree trunk,
a Leghorn cock roosted in white oak crows;
I scrape away thorns of long dreams --
when this discarded burnt clock,
twenty years out of the ashes of your home,
ticks.
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