You stood up, and the world rose with you! Astounding globe, charter of misty distances, held love! From you, all things emitted their eternal energy. From you, the sensual regale of lifted light, diamonds! 5 From you, spears of daybreak arose, laughing lioness! Night abandoned melancholy, ropes of dew lifted with you. Dark-headed iris of a thousand days, When love comes before us we abandon everything. Old harbingers, old hates, past truths, deficiencies and victories; 10 Miscarried words scrawled on a discarded cast. The hour of getting here and getting here has arrived. The clock has mounted up to your eyes with minutehand prayers. Glissades and everglades tick also in your eyes. Now the door of spring rushes open. 15 Winter's broom sweeps out its ashes and its tears. Now it is the hour without shadow come again, And the sun collects us. Us together in our nearness! Guitars boom in the garden, struck thunder, sound-blossoms. In your chest, high and light, orchestras promenade 20 Through galleries of just showing up. Like tulips. Down your unleashed arms, rivers arrive at honey seas. The mock turtle goes on in his heavy rounds, baying boisterously. My heart has eaten up the days of us together, Salty and strong in its thumb-made dish of red clay. 25 This arriving with us and within us does not stop. It goes on and on, on and on forever. Stations of departure, those old crosses, stand Worn and gilded. They are empty, abandoned as lice. Together we come dancing and solemn, two porpoises. 30 Our sides are streaked with blue universes of wet light. Azaleas patch the landscape, color-dots motioning oboes. One note the sorry, somehow sour acknowlegdement of our seperate estates. In you, the first hello and the last hello. Hello! In you, strange seagulls x back and forth. 35 Those who never expected to meet themselves do so. Found dogs surprise each other, exchanging rushing tails. In us, the swallows' songs entangle and beat. The last thrill of their virtuous vibrato domes our sky. In you, dawn cannot come to autumn. Shadows are always deep. 40 Hallucinations adopt your stance, but only you convince. Let me stand upon your porch, a little old and rattled. Let me travel like a shipwreck back to your anchorage. Let me wash in your tender banks like a seal, and roll there. Let me sink in you, hold in you, like greenness in grass. 45 Oh my sunlight, oh my day's-breath! Let me transfigure you, like chlorofil, into my own body. Let me suck sweet sips of air from the cups of your ears. Let me drop my heart in your mouth with this tongue. These words I use rumor your abiding. 50 And yet, you do not abide. You rush through all dawns, all skies, all risings With eagle feathers afloat in your hair, An indian princess bartering for her bridehood. A new danube charging her bankheads. 55 You groom the night away, particle by particle, Until day stuns us.
From the collection "The Rose Lasso"
Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]
More information available on gregglory.com.