Ariadne
Pay attention: I have been yielded out of the earth in a white bag;
the body in it was not blue or light blue or grinning, it was a soup
of every old organ, every broad bit of skin; it has been reformed
to factor the universe; it has died in a number of extraordinary ways,
fanatical and hanging in Cyprus, rendering out young in Cyprus,
ruthless or tender Artemis in Cyprus; look how it has been made
to follow the same sad element, the same thin line of string that leads
constantly, mechanically out; I arrive now wholly congealed; my form
is a genuflection, an echo, the marble head of a tragic woman.
Pay attention: I am not my
Litany
These poems, these hairs,
and you the dog that bit me.—
You are atom,
and I excuse you from it.
I've no need of photograph, memory,
keeping you so immediate.
Do I shame you to ask it?
Give me what might break my bones,
and my bones,
give me those as well,
so that I might hold them intimately
and, in old age, feel you
in them like dark weather.
Lovers, Finish Your Sentences by lerepentir, literature
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Lovers, Finish Your Sentences
Lovers, Finish Your Sentences
Lovers, finish your sentences.
Finish your sentences
and be open as you came,
be like ghosts:
acknowledge
we, too, once were men,
we, too, drag long and sad
across the same stark stretch
of linoleum and recall
to choke out our worships.
I arrive at the cue of you,
a gray and habitual wearing, moaning
come for what you came for.
Lovers,
come for what you came for and bore
in mind.
Zeno
I draw a void to a void.
Whose mathematics are these that make us whole?
The days are blank logarithms, the astounded webbings
of which do not accompany us to our loneliness.
What body could I take adequately into mine
and stand substantiated by?
I am no farmer's field, pocketed by prayer
of good season, but instead
secret my small, underground thought
of a world made completely of rain.—
Held in whole—the apparatus of each
dimension of galaxies,
the life of draught and the draught of life,
the busy culmination of everything that is
by its distinct nature incomplete—
my love is an incapable and layman god,
its terms, its
Zeno
I draw a void to a void.
Whose mathematics are these that make us whole?
The days are blank logarithms, the astounded webbings
of which do not accompany us to our loneliness.
What body could I take adequately into mine
and stand substantiated by?
I am no farmer's field, pocketed by prayer
of good season, but instead
secret my small, underground thought
of a world made completely of rain.—
Held in whole—the apparatus of each
dimension of galaxies,
the life of draught and the draught of life,
the busy culmination of everything that is
by its distinct nature incomplete—
my love is an incapable and layman god,
its terms, its
Lovers, Finish Your Sentences by lerepentir, literature
Literature
Lovers, Finish Your Sentences
Lovers, Finish Your Sentences
Lovers, finish your sentences.
Finish your sentences
and be open as you came,
be like ghosts:
acknowledge
we, too, once were men,
we, too, drag long and sad
across the same stark stretch
of linoleum and recall
to choke out our worships.
I arrive at the cue of you,
a gray and habitual wearing, moaning
come for what you came for.
Lovers,
come for what you came for and bore
in mind.
Litany
These poems, these hairs,
and you the dog that bit me.—
You are atom,
and I excuse you from it.
I've no need of photograph, memory,
keeping you so immediate.
Do I shame you to ask it?
Give me what might break my bones,
and my bones,
give me those as well,
so that I might hold them intimately
and, in old age, feel you
in them like dark weather.
Zeno
I draw a void to a void.
Whose mathematics are these that make us whole?
The days are blank logarithms, the astounded webbings
of which do not accompany us to our loneliness.
What body could I take adequately into mine
and stand substantiated by?
I am no farmer's field, pocketed by prayer
of good season, but instead
secret my small, underground thought
of a world made completely of rain.—
Held in whole—the apparatus of each
dimension of galaxies,
the life of draught and the draught of life,
the busy culmination of everything that is
by its distinct nature incomplete—
my love is an incapable and layman god,
its terms, its
ok so i know you dont know me and i left you a comment on one of your poems but i wasnt sure if you would it....so i was wondering if you could help me....i'm trying to submit one of my stories but i keep running into problems....could you possibly help me or know someone that could??? much appreciated....great work by the way...
no, there are a LOT of good poets. they're just so badly spread out, so that if you look at it in terms of percentages, you can probably say statistically that the chance of finding one is zero. just go browse the poetry- see if you get past the fifth poem without bleeding eyes.