Thursday, May 31, 2007

Of the Bird of the Holy Calling


Over this harrowing landscape, a pulley of carnage rescues

the few shuddering mulberry breasts & a corn rotten crow

who grew up wanting to be an egret.

& still the burden of scorched earth, of fires and shelling

means a crown is descended somewhere, down to the planet,

maybe in a city or movie theater, and alighted, as ordained

on some idiot’s head. Because only the clear eye of a swamp bird

can shudder out the seed of our High Holy Lord, this war

is a crescent on the great belt buckle in the sky. Rear up

to the truckers, for they humped those bombs all they out

of Nebraska or what other state did not cry when she was

born. So we go on, and the film has us learn Typhoon depths

& links of tears fed into processors. The crow makes us mealy

mouthed about the war, while the god makes us love it.

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