Image borrowed from BingStefan Hyner
every word wrangled from
……..the eye of Uranus
……………every sound of the world perceived
“We are grown ups,” he sez
“cuz we hurt constantly.”
A fire extinguisher, a pill
to end the pain
………………..it’s…………………….over now
…………we had it
………………with…….ALL……present at
………………………………………….times
………………for………………………to behold
………………………………………….called & callin’
…………………………..today their voices
……………………………...were in the thunder
………………………………… then it calmed
………………………………………….down
THE GAULEITER & THE RABBIT (2)
Jerome Rothenberg
the gauleiter & the rabbit
form another segment
of the dream…..their motion thrusts them forward
until he drives his teeth into the other’s neck
purveyor of a custom so within the norm
the world will hardly recognize it
but will say of him as it has always done
the passion of this man to kill he reads as justice
& such justice is the province of the powerful
& pure
………..where purity is one with power
& no rabbit will escape the hunter’s trap
now that a gauleiter has spoken
because the murderers are there in every generation
& the spray that cleans the flesh out of his teeth
will still keep running as the rabbits will
will leave the country bare without a trace
until the other gauleiters come riding in
to stoke his fires
it will be the way we saw him once & froze
a man of an uncertain size
dimensions hidden colder than a stone
his shadow flattened out against a wall
the children in his dream
fused to a single child
a rabbit running backwards
with his finger on the spring he brings them down
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