Thursday, 25 September 2014

Destroyer


None will ever claim to have destroyed me.
None has ever cast me underfoot.
None has ever dared raise their hand on me
or hurl words meant to hurt.
I am no weakling.
I am not one to fidget.
I am not one to budge
nor am I one to prostrate.
I am not one to show a weakness
for I have none.
None will ever harness
what will always be one.
I can play with my foes
and my lovers alike
in the fashion of felines,
I can swallow their bones
or just leave them in stacks,
stripped of their very import,
for I have power beyond measure,
for I have wrath beyond reckoning,
for I am a destroyer.

Thursday, 18 September 2014

If this be the verse, this be the news


"It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

William Carlos Williams, American poet and physician (1883-1963)

Thursday, 11 September 2014

Fragment #11


Your smile, in the half-light of the drowsy bedroom,
discernible in the thin shaft slanting through the louver,
is like a sleeping dragon,
breathing slowly through a century-long sleep,
never has sun shone through jalousies with such passion.

Saturday, 6 September 2014

Corps

 
Corps-sujet (corps-je-ils-nous-tu)
Corps-dépendant-à-corps-défendant
Corps à corps
Corps-décor(um)
Corps-frontière (corps-Schengen)
Corps-fierté-corps-lié
Corps-re-source
Corps-ex-sculpture
Corps-citadelle (corps-Samarkand)
Corps-action-(axiome)
Corps-à-dessein
Corps-armé-pétition
Corps-ouvert-fermé
Corps-si-leste-céleste
Corps-cœur-de-pierre
Corps-de-contact
Corps-détruit-intact
Corps-sain-produit
Corps-vigile (corps-musée)
Corps-étendard
Corps-de-principe
Corps-muet (corps-secret)
Corps-sacré-corps-fin-en-soi
Corps-centre-O

This is no longer home

On the train back to the old place unsure if any memory is left there Surely there must be an old cigarette burn hissing embers fusing ...