Friday, December 18, 2009

Omnivorous

is a variant of the ancient mover, too
  stray as a word, up-turned
—and flung with thumb-pulsion across!—
  It's the hideous you know

  & enough to make you cry

for what moves the idea, my dear
  comes twixt & for real:
it's a tic in the fur, blood to the tolerable
  step, up and so,
right terrible screech to the bone

  & harder than you are

and far from any straw man and yes so
  "How do you know we're not
in a black-hole, right now, stretched, dying?"
  Right again, dear

3 comments:

Ed Baker said...

me to the
fork-in-the-road
and have

taken it

well enough

but

don't forget syntax

or "better" still:

reconnoiter as the plot (stew) thickens

Ed Baker said...

where'd the (brilliant) first
part go...

where does any
-thing


26 1/2 inches of snow on my back dec..

drifts almost 3 feet..

here-and-there about 17 inches..

about the ninth biggest snow storm here in D.C.

almost as huge a "snow" storm ('snow-job') as our congress daily drops!

Conrad DiDiodato said...

Ed,

the first brilliant part (of snow) is always falling falling, specks of sky: the rest is so much weight & terror.