The very astonishing hour has come. The very astonishing hour indeed! Green Heinekens, jade brain and rose-coral vodkas --Exhausted! In one final, fantastic evening. 5 Hosannahs invade the empty windows, spurs of blacks, mysterious As the tender invitation of the body. Bright, alcoholic after-haloes sift Timid ash upon stale, upraised lips. 10 Sobriety has entered us As mourners enter a white church. Enough of this pathetic quietness! This simpering, dog-like wish for 'temperament,' The madness of faces full of 'sound judgment.' 15 I forgive all disasters, all accomplishments, Every disguise that announces 'I am finished!' Choking its inhabitant as a mirror chokes beauty. Songs of sporadic intensity, wicked verses, The poem of flayed skin, blind eyesight, 20 Mutes imagining laughter, I forgive you! Pathetic quiet! Bring tympans, wild sibilants, Drunken elephants of sound, mists, the harsh clangour of brass. 25 New eyes, new hearts, new senses! Bring a speech of bloods, the invention of Angels! Why was one ever afraid of waking? Eh! a little daydream I had in the haypile. But now the new era has arrived --this moment!-- 30 Let us revenge the sky for an hour! Let us run out, muds of new births upon us, And seize in hands of ice the very flowing waters---- Dreams of incorporeal perfection! Dawn-leaves splinter in my eye 35 Enacting the death of Satan. Vertigineousness in the closet! Very astonishing!
From the collection "Ascent"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
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