Glory Boy

      .    1
      Gregg Glory's crossing freedoms
      And all his fizzing flesh
      Bifurcates unlaw's chaos
5     Into anarchic order again.
           2
      Frank divinity's a fable
      No reason could compel,
      Once out of its Klein bottle,
10    Back into the reality of Hell.
           3
      Innocence and virtue unbrother,
      One kills or corrupts the other;
      Cold knowing chokes the knower,
15    No actions survive the bower.
           4
      A happy soul is one
      That lives by what it does
      Not in sycophantic Is,---
20    No innocence is bliss.
           5
      Wisdom was an animal
      Shook stark terror from its eyes,
      Lived between the moon and Plato's pull
25    Unambitious of its size.
           6
      A solitary desire
      The singleness of want
      Finds all reality a fire
30    I shall not shunt.

 

From the collection "Divine Revolt"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.