Saturday, March 1, 2014

YET HOW OFTEN



How I howl and rage inside!
Yet how often I must hold back
The flood of feeling
Of action,
And cool the kerosene
That runs within my veins.

How I yearn to scream my song!
Yet how often I must bite it,
That wild horse – truth –
That frantic one
That bucks the walls inside
Its cranium corral

How often I Don't Live Today!
Yet how often this morbid worm,
This bringer of light
Expiates my all
So that I lay it down
To let go my blue condition.


June 8, 1995
Nonsan, ROK
 

THIS BURDEN, LIFE

 


This burden, life
So weak
So weary
Lovelamp’s shadow
Crystalline
As before
God awful
Pitybrain
The loveless love
Gone static spirit
Blackened soul
Cursed by Thomas curlews 

This burden, life
Oh weak
Heavy heart
Go
Where magpies nest
In the deep well, the
Underwater trench
Forgotten
Meaningless good works
Buried
In time
And lost to the mind 

This burden, life
Unhinged
Meandog town
Stay
Unrecognized
Vented and bleeding
Clasp the vacant gaze
To my dumb bosom
Hold on
Failing sight
Medicate me
Unwanted unlover.
 

August 1, 1992
Santa Fe, NM