Falling over hisself with
          his tumbledown longing
        giving out the raggedy
signs
                      with a
dirty brush
       Glamour, disarming
                  scorning the
polished demand
    seeping between the fingers 
                   held over the
eyes
                     Blossoming: the
burst sea wall 
                remembered here
                        and here
the hundreds of arcing stars
                      duffing up the
hung up dark
            and the Norwegian
girl
    drunk and 
               in tears and 
                   not in love
                       and not in
love 
 
This tumbles down the steps of the burst sea wall to the most terrific ending any wave of remembered feeling or poem could ever hope for.
ReplyDeleteThanks, TC.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange to work with a memory at such a distance. There's a certain melancholy pleasure in the work. My time at Art School was a rush of dissolution and much making. It's good to look back.