New Age

      All watch blindly because all are blind,
      Mixing in a bitter ditch, while hands and eyes
      Bolt new brains on a body tamed
      Out of all unnatural instinct at last
5     Until all stand, skin to skin, with all who stand
      Ecstatic round one plate, honey-filled,
      Like some dark-bodied community of bees.
      Like some dark-bodied community of bees
      All turn to that one vast image hung
10    Forever sweet in an abstract sky:
      Riotous selflove perfected to a stone
      Until no man is shaken with a hate,
      Or cold eventuality of death---
      Adam and Eve out of one stone struck.
15    Adam and Eve out of one stone struck;
      Interrupted churn of heads, or worse,
      Confused there, welded in the air, as if once
      Fury of the sexual onslaught begun,
      No deliberate loveliness
20    Could its purpose or pleasure deride:
      All watch blindly because all are blind.

 

From the collection "Burning Byzantium"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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