The Christians are a few yards ahead. Green track
lit through curled ferns. Heather's scent of everything,
of God entropy. Caer Caradoc: trace of dead claims;
Eretz Cymru. Yesterday he sang, Take me back to
the Black Hills, in wavering falsetto. Inhuman folds
from before anybody said anything. Empty beech nut
shell: dead genital mouth. Low weave of branches.
Broken shortbread mushrooms. Shat-upon
fleece scraps. Weathered bowl of water trembles.
Blood touched fleece with a scraped-clean scapula.
I wanted to catch you up. You didn't want me, but
I'm forever having to remember lines. Bastard wind
sharpening this bastard boy: I have eyes that I might
Perhaps even farther. It's fearful.
ReplyDeleteThis poem delivers a lot... danger, anticipation, vegetation, mystery, sacrilege (?), ancestry (??), "Heather's scent of everything,
of God entropy" (!!)... pervasive atmospheric redolence of decay... feeling of strong empathy with the nightsoil... final plunge into the ineffable -- in short, every conceivable good.
Very cool. Love this, WB.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Tom and Jonathan.
ReplyDeleteBorderlands are rich places to wander about.