A Saint is in the eye

      A saint is in the eye
                 that sees thee
      Upholding light
                 impatient skies descend--
5     Blue litmus insert
                 bedeviling a patched wold
      Changeless spirits inherit and descry
                 a lice-bed.
      Infinitely dark trees
10               shade the scree-
      Shaped cynosure-- adoring Life!
      Crying bloods leak down
                 a marble eye
      In thirsting wish seeing
15               glory-adornments
      Perched at the white clasp
                 of your throat
      Charging the plush surge
                 velvet time blots
20               --- in violet time reprised!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Aqua Lycra Scubagirl

      Oh my giant honeydrop
      Y'know my heart will never stop
      Look at me I look at you
      Is all I ever want to do
5     Oh my cherry lollipop
      There my cherry lollipop
      Oh ma chere I look at you
      That's all I ever wanna do

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Avalanche

      Quiet.
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Bella Belle Isabella [from Adoring Thorns]

      Her silvered eyes entranced the moon, leapt bare
      From dim cornice to swept heaven, stared
      The moon-man from his stirless rest
      By fibers of affection bound him breast to breast.
5     So Isabella charmed each element she met,
      Bent to calm waters, and made those waters crest
      As she were the moon come down to trod the wood
      And with luminous looks set whispers among the reeds.
      The wind that swept her sighed away enthralled;
10    And crickets kept her steps enshrined with hymns;
      Birds added wondrous silent powers to their calls
      And marked her visit solemnly, like small dignitaries trimmed;
      Sweet berries shook themselves to roll along her palm
      And of those moon-liveried lips have some taste
15    Before they of their giving taste gave all.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Division

      Here my winter heart,
      And there my summer soul
      In frosting opposition stand:
      As when noon and midnight meet,
5           Contend.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Epitaph

      [For her of whom I have written both "A million-souled angel this incarnate minute," and "When I in my lover's eye am cast aside," and felt both sayings true with the savage conviction of a ghost doomed to haunt the deathcamp of his last breath]
      In her cockle-slip of coffin
      My love lies lightly best;
      Out of my own small, sinned bones I begin
5     And shape one splinter to sail gigantic seas;
      I lay the red keel in my breast.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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EVE'S ONE PEARL

      Stop, ageless star, kissing my desire
      That night has fed with dreams of lasting fire
      And see the charging river such kisses have unhearsed:
      For pale and pointless as the stony ground
5     Have I lain with whispers until by night immersed
      And in that night await your silent burning sound!
      I look to you when my youth deceives me
      And all the tempest of my indignant blood
      Throws the sauntering seas of daydream into fever:
10    Ever calm above these opposing storming seas
      That meet in my breast and cancel
      You stare, bright star, in vauntless victory ever!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Her eyes intensified....

Her eyes intensified destroyed the impossible clarity of the evening. Aquamarine at midnight, skies of milk and summer. By erasing it yet more clearly. Hyperbolic acid in her glance-- impossible to petty moralities; all enter and dissolve. Ha ha! How luxuriantly have caravans of myself, my own, my bedouin soul, passed green nights exploring these portals. Meadows of somber enormity. Ha ha! This should interest those who pretend to be scientists of spirit.

Myself? I am rapturous for escape. Into reality, the unpurveyable.

Prom-dressed scarecrows stuffed with diamonds of anguish would pay a very high price for my innocence.

Then:

---Your mouth is a brood ground of old whores.

Every word is an untranslatable genesis.

---Piquant egotism!

I say her eyes.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Her incandescent body

      Her incandescent body
      Tender under told time's one gigantic tick
      Incinerates hours and fables by swept, kept licks;
      Molten beneath the moon's white story
5     One by one the unspoiled stars spill from her side.
      Take all my lorn light unshorn (to you only belonging)
      Twist flame and flower and winking spring
      Into the midnight ivy of your dark, swung hair
      And into the blended candle's long eye at dawning.
10    Twist every strand of the wild, wild air
      Into the midnight ivy of your dark, swung hair
      Until Love jumps out from spuming earth
      And mounts the lost, cross ways of my breath.
      All-at-once lovely in your loved eye,
15    Awkward and able, spry and awry,
      My burning body like a shouted cross I move
      (O golden-boned frame suffused with unrefusing Love!)
      All-at-once lovely in your loved eye.
      Now out of sparring breath
20    I pause to praise and honour all her ways:
      Whirled brave alive again from her inward world
      I sing all loves sprung from her beginning word;
      And deep in the sacristy of her candle-hot breath
      I lay down my moons and worlds for the honor of her days.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Hunting [from Adoring Thorns]

      Beyond the fell pace of antelopes
        Lost to sight in the cold engulfing woods
      Where hot hounds give ululating chase, up slope
        And deep into the dimmest mossy fold---
5     There my mind in ranting rage unwinds
        And knows the sharp sorrow of each bitten thing
          And falls with the great hart in bludgeoned love;

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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I have an absence

      Hold my absent heart.
      Fill my broken sky.
      Tournequet my lurching lies.
      Hold me where my heart's departed,
5     But don't
                step on my squish,
                                   lady baby.
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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I want to be pushed down the slide

      These fish are angel that blast by
      my reef-fingered hands
      and coral-coated tongue stuck in singing
      Scales and nitrous loves breathe
5     deep and fluid rides
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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I'd divine the source your rich mystery was made i

      I'd divine the source your rich mystery was made in
      But head cannot know what heart's forsaken
      That groans awake in the harassing [solitary] wind
      Which irritates these high-borne summer grasses
5     Stirred as I to your blood's momentary thrumming:
      How out of deafness had I heard your deep soul coming?
      And what strange remembrance then shall my heart find
      Pulsing beneath new autumn's colored masses
      When lungs pulse solemn in the halo-light
10    Beaten to sweet gold above one winter's night?
      O there are days that drive one to be blind
      To all the world's cruel, compelling ashes
      And force my bludgeoned, hidden heart to see
      A coarse, cold beauty behind a dark reality.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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I'll resign the moon

      I'll resign the moon
      [And all the fainting artwork of stars tear down]
      And all the flagrant shouting stars
      That leech their whiteness to every sky
5     Indifferent as the wind
      For her whose whiteness stays concentrated
      More than the gigantic roaming moon
      Or meteors that diminish as they pass
      In higher light oval as true love
10    That touches everything as it touches
      You with its white tangential tongue.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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I'm Seein' Life in Debravision

      Parted lovers met on life's intervening
             strand:
      Close in love, and closer still in loving.
      Pearled light held the near angels' adoring,
5     Angelic in reflection of love's uplifted brand.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Jes' Tryin' Ta Tell A Vision [from Adoring Thorns]

      All these unlimited ministries glisten
      Ingeniously-- lights capitulating to lights'
      Increasing haloes.
      So her face
5     Angelus limitless from lips to unpinned hair
      In my heart radiates life
      Until every limb lies annealed
      And even my fingers infect the spring with joy
      Teaching each sweet bird its flight
10    From high height to highest!
      Purloined glories from my smashing chest
      Accept no council
      Neither fear nor philip of wit
      Nor care of any creepy pink thing
15    But plunging on in their own bewildered wonderment
      Scroll out til stars pile up
      Making earth's envisioning air
      Seem the thinnest ribboning.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Let it come, let it come

      Let it come, let it come
      Hypnotized time of supremest Love!
      I faint from paitience,
      My memory dead;
5     Fears and falseness-- enchantments!
      To heaven are fled.
      And Love's soft thirst
      My sick veins bursts.
      Let it come, let it come
10    Hypnotized time of supremest Love!
      by Arthur Rimbaud

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Lyric Licked [from Adoring Thorns]

      Love and longing live for light---
      It is a torch's tempted touch
      Comes to candle conscious sight,
      Komes in kicking blisters-- it is too much!
5     My love and longing endure a night;
      Every luminescence shut
                               when she blinks against the light.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Mr. Moon is my solo glow;

      Alright, I think,
      Almighty, I
      I saw the pale fingers of love
      Push God-bones through the grey eyes
5           Of a burning dove.
      I'm so goddamn sober
      I ain't no goddamn lobo;
      You're just anti-social
      No friends outside the go-go.
10    Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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My Heart, My Debra, My New Dwelling

      Up the singing stair I bound as heart
      Pounds a rhythm of joy, unbounded, full
      Of its own spread glory as kissed lips that part
      To set royal notes to soul's burning all.
5     Here there is wine; wine, poetry and love
      To last all evening long, and light the morn
      In flame everliving as my spirit moves
      Above the limning eye of dawn. I've borne
      Untold sorrows as wind bears up the clouds
10    That fly into the atmosphere's soft
      Height, where still my soul beats loud!
      O inner certainty, sure as that sky aloft
      I'd give again each heartache, live every painful hour
      That I may know one moment of beauty's fearsome power.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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My neon heart's kneeling in defeat

      My neon heart's kneeling in defeat;
      Beauty by its gentle precept
      Now all its silken ties relents,
           Loosening sighs my soul had kept.
5          Never under a deeper terror
      Moved one blinded spirit's seraph
      Than this enchanted note might tell of
           ---However voice is prone to error!
           For I was one who had loved Love!
10    Nor ever for my hot fondness stood reproved
      But tripled-up that passion cold eyes removed,
           Heating deep Atlantics from my heart's cove.
           Sacred were those wellspring's vents!
      Deeplier delved than baptismal frankincense
15    Crushed to holy foreheads in Arab tents---
           Never of life's pulsings to relent!
           Time has put all such dreaming now to bed,
      All louder hearts to quiet 'neath calmer heads
      As if to lie asleep were to forget the dread:
20         Though lying living now, we shall lie dead.
           So then what is it to have lived?
      Nothing; if not "to have loved."
      Thus life's premise is against me proved
           And I am dead--- though I have loved.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Naked

      My heart's a lamp of "red, mirrored fire"
      Blown to sun-eyed daises flown
      From the uncovered light of her chest;
      Now ashen heart has a smoky charm to fondle
5     And she had a will to touch such smoke
      A wick-licked nipping love
      Mouthed from the sensual tongue of summer air
      Writhing with daisies in the heaven-flooded fields
      Whirled about her rich wildness where she lay.
10    Then all my pyred, wronged
      Soul abandoned broken in its ageless grief
      Stood forgetful of its doom of harm
      In the myriad afternoon of her maenad's chin:
      And lapped in happiness through the tumbledown night
15    I rose with the joy-streaked stars again
      And felt in the blood-flared marrow
      Of my pyring, fire-christened soul's core
      The meadowed virgin's sung lovingness come
      Whiten and bless me with her petal-fall.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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New Year [from Adoring Thorns]

      How sweet the blossom shouts the winter's over
      In cannonades all of yellow love
      Starring a ground still downy
      As if summer suns outswept the inaugural day.
5     How dawn's above this starling stalk uncertain
      Which of the light is bearer and receiver!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Once under silent stars I kneeled weeping,

      Once under silent stars I kneeled weeping,
      I sewed a night-black dress for funeral keeping;
      Seeded by midnight threads of loves kept waiting
      The breads we held together kept their braiding.
5     And far past the trenchant moon's unlacing
      Glittered cakes and icy lights. My bleeding
      Starts: my nightly heart lies beating
      In a funeral dress of white threading
      White as these stone breads our hands keep kneading.
10    Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Or However the Weather Tends [from Adoring Thorns]

      I have been by your tempests overtaken
      And wallow waterlogged in your waves' swales
      Whose salt in tender licks my mouth
      Opens thirsting for.... Drowned by years
5     Of loving whatever your love abandons here
      On the constant beaches of my devotion.
      Not one pebble turns from the spray away
      Or hesitates to douse itself in you.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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PARIS NIGHT

      Ice cathedrals rise to disappear in air;
      A cold-halo hugs the moon with light
      And radiates all through the star-shot night,
      A God-eye x-ray of my swooning spirit
5     Thrown large against the winter's distance.
      The cold tongue chips from the mouth of Baudelaire,
      Stark grey and somnolent on his nude tomb
      And pitted as a rotting virgin's womb.
      Oh song of Baudelaire! strike through
10    Death's blight, and light's: ring, rise and yet renew
      The eviscerating dark that here unscrews
      Melting eyes from intoxicated sockets.
      How should poets love the night and yet refuse
      To saunter the sun's mercuric center and unlock it?
15    Daniel J Weeks, Gregg Glory

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Prayer. Again. [from Adoring Thorns]

      Naked angels who watch my spirit, weep
      As I have wept, and still this vigil keep.
      For purer love has never in its season
      Been given than this I give unease in.
5     O Disquiet! Come hallow this soul of me
      Forged between an ariel halo listing in fire
      And sultry dusts spurring restlessnesses.
      Come shift my spirit's solidity-- as mist
      Arisen to sun's atomizing power
10    Lifts to brighter character by its change of state.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Riding angel-lambent in cloud-crystal bliss

      Riding angel-lambent in cloud-crystal bliss
      I mock all pricking peaks' diminished blacks
      Until the near sun dissipates like a vapored kiss
      And all Love's crystal excess cracks away and sinks
5     Light-shattered to the deep-augured sea.
      I sing my imaged beauty's bright obsequies
      As rancid temples sink from my heightened sight
      And anchors reel away from now-rising ships;
      I sing despite defeatists who moon for cold Carthage dead
10    Or, sunk with heart-tonnage of thickest lead,
      Curse the blessing God gave them free:
      Truth, dear Beauty, and long-souled Liberty!
      Thus I fly on, re-luming a salvaged past
      Until out of whatever worst of worst surrounds
15    I divine this syllabic, righteous best!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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RIMBAUD/BEAUTY CLOSING MONOLOG

Once,

That night I wrapped jilted Beauty in my arms-- and I found her bitter-- and I spit at her.

I cursed her; and I [she] wept.

I pickep up the gun against Justice. Terrible vengeance!

I ran.-- O Bitches! O Misere! O Hate! All that is precious I have left with you.

Ill luck was my idol. Sadness, queen over me. Tragady was my master. Unhappiness, my GOD. I, the evil prince.

And then at last the tender Spring apportioned to me the frightful laugh of an idiot!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Sex As Sex

      Look to where groins are purring
      To touch the spur to flank;
      Miraculous backs heave sweating
      In midnight's suspended black.
5     O open your heart without letting
      Until the moon bends down to watch;
      Touch fire and fire to match,
      No matter the weight of the dark.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Shakespeare Writes It [from Adoring Thorns]

      Although my love's made for joy
      I taste black ashes at my lips;
      For I am pining sick in love
      And love is all my remedy.
5     For love but wounds to cure
      By wounding giving cure, cured to wound again!
      I am an apostle of that ecstasy
      And still cannot the deadly sweet
      Of love's maddened sweat forget.
10    Such is love's mystery
      When we lie abed
      Who would give heart's cure
      Must first stitch heads.
      Though love is brief, on my hurt I meditate
15    And find all ill who all-wished for sweet;
      One heart, my own, unowned
      Like a drop of salt-sweet spray
      Cold oceans of feelings shows.
      Oh still to be a human thing alone!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Sleeping in the tender light of alone

      Sleeping in the tender light of alone
      My body made itself an army--
      My many minds alarmingly rebelled--
      My noisy dreams were tossing stones to hell:
5     What heaven bounced back? No echo tells
      Of tender any keeper. Attack. The sounds
      How solved, bending, holy, doving, proud
      Moved to the ways my unkept singleness still loved.
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Small faces gather at the great, Romantic heart

      Small faces gather at the great, Romantic heart
      Staked alive in the stiff glare of dead eyes' love-glances,
      An icicle-daggered light that stabs the loveless dark.
      How like the vaccuum-vacant philosophy of Sartre!
5     Small faces proved mute, they slink towards death....
      Dwindled souls! Seek death's vile ecstatic chance!
      O hatred! glow again within this loving breath
      And spurn with angel's-fire every falseness weaving  wreaths
      About this lighted grove of truest Love
10    I hold within me in untresspassed stillness yet.
      Every striving leaf to some high lightness tends,
      Sending its green tendrils through a shadowed net;
      So I strive, and my striving may have no let. O Love, love
      How sacred is this tended flame no matter how you move--

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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SPIGOT SAYS

      Spigot says "Take that, evil-doer!
      Your life of pig is overly done!
      Your sin of winning no more shall come
      Disguised in pink and pearly sure!"
5     Fascinated faucet spat right back:
      "The pure I spit is surely sauce
             and porkly big."
      Thus lumbered spigot and faucet on
      From flush night-crack to dribbling dawn
10    Arguing and arguing and arguing through
             bigs of brawn.
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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The Drunken Ballerina

      There, nimble and fantastic
      As the bar closes, a tilting girl
      (Near wooden doors eerily elastic)
      Stands, dances and twirls,
5     Shrieking "Life!" to adoring airs
      A chandelier's flaming wings make roseate.
      "My angel, my light, come down, come here!"
      She leaps from her chair-- too high, too late--
      Pirouettes, trips, recovers herself
10    In the innocence and vision of a dream:
      From the paradise of her lips
      An atmosphere, a heaven, of absinthe
             Slips.
      Drunken and lovely, the Intoxicant,
15    Following with feet wherever heart went,
      Learns like a supplicant to lean
      On whatever the dream means.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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The Face haunts me

The face haunts me. Melts, vagrant ghost that it is, enters my veins and wells up to impossible laughter. Shrieking radiance of newness-- shrill and virile! Well, well, I feel that I have not yet forgotten how-to-love.

Blue innocence of adorning airs-- unnecessary extravagance! in the face of your face. Come, stand beside me. There is so much I demand to imagine as still possible tonight. How void of solace is the empty moon! One bladed touch of your fingernail, and the world lies ripped around me in bleeding shreds.

Art, poetry, complexity: Let us destroy these sterile mechanics of happiness--

How uselessly this world is gold troubadour to my impulse!

Yet, the face haunts me.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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The Hero and The Saint

      Halfway to heaven a hero and sinner rest,
      Grave mouth to mouth, and breast upon breast;
      Long were those kisses as the sky may melt and sway,
      Deep the breaths that crest up there
5             Until mountains are clay.
      Straight upright stand the dead,
      Trumpet upbourne on skull and head;
      No laurel wreaths do their eviscerate hearts display,
      All that song had woven together now lays unmade;
10    And thorn and dust have taken
              All song and tongue away.
      When God's asleep we'll dance as saints,---
      In naked innocence heart and skin may meet;
      Clouds of proud demeanor will fall from our breaths,
15    Our milk kisses pour and taste milk-sweet
              Deaf to the whisper of death.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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To Her, To Her

      Twice by speed of love was my message sent
      Dimming suns by bright heart's relent-
      Less, sincere and spiritual, self-amusement.
      Here joy castled and burning voices flowed
5     As fire were water, up skies bluely endowed
      (By wedded loves' light now new embowered).
      And --as a flower-- leapt my longing
      Universes high, unkempt light prolonging
      As tender looks in lovers' eyes are kept
10    By mutual fire alive against the ashy wish of death.
      Thus this flaming wreath hath reft roses and suns
      Of their writhing petals, but not their worth
      Which, reckless of cold time's slow vast waste, runs
      On and on, racing still my pulses to loved earth!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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When I truly dream on Paradise....

When I truly dream on Paradise for me, how few faces accompany the vision! None of them recognizable! Here, an unendurable tenderness-- leechlike affections, very like modern art. Empty souls gyrating with a sound of suffusing suction! Wanton in their emptiness, their excessive lack. What sold-out paucity. Inhibitionists sacrificing the spinning wish to live! Mourning doves hop from my head to eat out the eyes of these remorseless sycophants. Trapped by a desire-- they know nothing of how to desire reality for themselves... Ah, my petite soul! How conjugal thy green dance. Come, swirl your cherry scarves around me! We shall play at spitting on these faces!

. . . . .

Shattered lilies on the abstract faces

Poor bastard! I shall wear your skin-- as a victory and a celebration! You have stripped it off as a drunkard strips off moderation. How jealous of God's spotlight ached St John! There is a willing divinity--- as real as any pig sacrifice in Tahiti.

. . . . .

Angels possessing cowardice! You too!-- I have felt it-- wings delicate and oily as a fly's, shivering with the anticipation of some heavenly visit-- the recorded face of a little girl at the instant of death; the very moment when she threw herself on the tracks to save the family dog. These are the fetishes of good spirits.

I myself am hurtling down the same track, my eyes magnetized by my eventual death-- a death totally without salvation: For I have seen the glorious angels and stood among the hive as they communed with their Creator. My hanging heart, hungry with righteous appetite, has been caressed by the Supreme Hand, altering its tick-- but still I refuse to believe in them; I won't stick by that dirty crew! Not I! Not that lot!

Still, heaven is open to me. Its razor azures. Just the thought of falling in love stops my heart.

. . . . .

The watered loves of salvation. Again! Again these symphonies disrupting restless dusts. How long and how lovingly I longed to be a corpse! Let the roses close over my eyes-- how shyly! Simply the moon's light leaks into the tomb, my arms crosswise, awaiting the heart's cool command to cease. My nostrils shudder at the other corpses; morose disfigurement gnarling the stone. Even in death I am a snob! To have given as I gave: this face to this time! Horribly, I held her hand. I mewed, "I love you." And at this, at this her vailing virginity lapsed! No heroic soul melted between us. Monstrous Beauty! Chaste hands held and licked like cold-cream. How tender were the lies we steeped each other in! Disingenuous lust, dispirited genetalia. She, too, was dead. Her eyes died when I licked the tears from her face-- and laughed!

We are so immemorially close! In the velvet afterlight of burning decay, how solemnly her lips beheld mine. Bridegroom to spent darkness. Avidly, vividly, licking. Night, night, my own most especial despair! Unwrap the spirit this cellophane traps! Extend my nauseousness to the masses! Sick, and in infinite hope infinitely despairing, I extend my tongue to your bootsole... I weep if I can touch one discarded object of your hatred!

Mysterious Heart!

My words are nails!

Useless nails!

What a Satan I truly am!

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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When you are gone my heart is buried

      When you are gone my heart is buried
      In damned time, my grave maker and keeper;
      What tripped unerringly then stumbles, dead
      In a world deceased, save for active reaper
5     Who seeks live hearts for deadliest solace
      And in velvet caress comes touching to kill.
      I adopt the cowl and wear an empty face
      Stained by cold reticence when I lack your will
      Which hotly blushes all my good intent
10    As sunlight interfuses loveliness
      To every airy thing, in whole or part,
      Imbuing sheer transfigurement by thy wish.
           But now, my sun, you are come again
           And make all departure welcome by such return.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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Why I Like Wet [from Adoring Thorns]

      All these longshoremen of the heart can go fuck
      O water water aching blue and bright
      Get that little scubagirl up to the light--
      Prayers are ashes when heaven is wet:
5     O lonely little scubagirl, fly up to my net!
      My heart is full of candy roses,
      My hand's a daisy patch;
      I bless all runny noses 'cuz
      I hope one blessing yours will catch.
10    O little aqua lycra scubagirl
      You swim in my Adriatic heart's red swirl.

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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X-ico

      blonde tomb,
      tangled tongue, I go
      spirit-cased to glory
      golden bow and boy
5     a lute-haired god I trod
      soully aware I come
      close and closed for now
      a noel of no-note
      tolling a lemon-lozenge
10    apocalypse in lip-sync
      Ronna Bunker & Gregg G. Brown

 

From the collection "Adoring Thorns"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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