Showing posts with label "In St. James park". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "In St. James park". Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2011

"In St. James park"


No I can never go; it is dark beyond my gate;
And my mind could not live out there
                                           (Frank Samperi)
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Here are insupportables of life, and suns in a
  standoff with dust

unleash the crows on them—just two crows!—
  The dark wing, as it's mean

 and roguish, (snapt
& torn, too, in the same wind and sun)
 is upon them    
                      Mohawks compete with locals
  for some fear, too

Do they mean to join us, in the parks?

    Wind and the suns
mean no harm, not with all the tents & needles
    in a row:

not when sex confects a church, & compels a lot
      of Love,
          Exudation
          Electricity

They mock the Abbé who offers donuts, the greying
  politico with fairish jaw

                         Girls happy to lie sprawled in yurts,
                                 food out of a can,
                                 cold        

What's it a question of anyways, money, sex, or bodies
  without organs?

Nothing's heavy-handed here! they repeat daily—          
  Look!     just
               isolated
               yurts,
               locals,
               girls, cold-bitten