What greatness?
What immortal literary conflict?
Probing
throbbing
rain.
Beating
bopping
wailing
rain.
Let us out mama,
let the soaking street kings
outside.
“Fresh as children,”
we,
slick mammals,
hold our
heads down
hands up
tongues steady.
Rain,
like slippery piano
keys
plunking
at the muse
of a whimsical
Water Otter,
coltranes
to the the tiny
wet
teeth
of
our planet.
-Here come the dogs, purple and slobbering.
-One, two, three junk yard cats ash colored and oval shaped.
Everything hiding, everything exposed
Buddha weather.
Fat glutton, Buddha weather.
Everything happy, perfect,
and sacred.
Everything wet,
dripping,
smoothing,
shuffling.
What silly mortal rain music?
Soft noise,
white noise,
drums -high hat and snare-
dark noise,
hard noise,
jealous horn noise,
scuttle noise,
There he is, walrus tisk whisker noise ,
on the sidewalk walking home.
sustained hush
charcoal noise.
static.
sudden hiss tongue
spraying pavement water
sacred otter
silk mammals
ephemeral
fingers
delicate jazz sky
animal song.
November 24, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I’m definitely catching up with your blog today. It’s been a while since I’ve visited it. Just wanted to let you know that this poem is big, and I don’t just mean in size. I need to read it several times to digest it, but my first impression was that it wails and sings and bleeds a little all at once!