Laconic spring word-isms are not going to be posted on this blog for the next month as I struggle my way into new ventures such as: [insert list poem here]
employment fishing, yoga pruning, stationary bike ambitions, poetry festooning in head, pulp and on e-pages.
This also includes the ever exciting preparation of grant gallivanting applications for some one [me] gender based artist/poet.
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower[20]
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
wb yeats
I miei occhi, chiamati dal tuo corpo,
della sua bellezza avvisano, ampio torso devastano,
e negli stretti fianchi si fermano storditi.
Senza indulgenza alcuna al labbro famelico mostrano
di ciliegie mordenti il seme,
e quando nelle mie dita il più ardente sfiorare
la tua pelle predice, della ametista intrusa
e iridato capezzolo nella mia lingua confusa
il tocco ravviva.
Le feroci trafitte di un conturbante augurio
prova a lenire il mio non assalito ventre
ma è vana la battaglia di chi già è stato ferito.
E un abisso è il piacere, e la smania è pazzia,
il tuo nome invocato è amara estenuazione
e il tuo corpo imminente rigorosa misura
del mio inferno.
Da questo affanno insaziabile, dicono, mi salverai.
Ma è certo solo che febbrile aspetto,
e che posso morire prima che tu mi tocchi.
Song
Make and be eaten, the poet says,
Lie in the arms of nightlong fire,
To celebrate the waking, wake.
Burn in the daylong light; and praise
Even the mother unappeased,
Even the fathers of desire.
Blind go the days, but joy will see
Agreements of music; they will wind
The shaking of your dance; no more
Will the ambiguous arm-waves spell
Confusion of the blessing given.
Only and finally declare
Among the purest shapes of grace
The waking of the face of fire,
The body of waking and the skill
To make your body such a shape
That all the eyes of hope shall stare.
That all the cries of fear shall know,
Staring in their bird-pierced song;
Lines of such penetration make
That shall bind our loves at last.
Then from the mountains of the lost,
All the fantasies shall wake,
Strong and real and speaking turn
Wherever flickers your unreal.
And my strong ghosts shall fade and pass
My love start fiery as grass
Wherever burn my fantasies,
Wherever burn my fantasies.
April 1955
“Song” from Body of Waking by Muriel Rukeyser.
there can be a
wick, a flame of light
or
some thing wick ed
from this uni verse
or its
re verse.
