Henry James

      "Capacious imagination's faces fete my famishing,
      take tea from a voice, a ghostly pour of steam
      rising and soliloquizing, misting the thirsty features
      drowned in their own pool of too-deep selfknowing.
5     Unhandsome Hawthorne, with a vibrant lie
      and victorian necktie, I guess my susurrations linger
      over trashed vowels, marked harmonies giving
      my fine Irene her double edge of softness;
      how, sometimes, the right face can mean salvation!
10    Howled down at the Imperial for my tea-tragedy last night,
      too cinnamon-delicate for the masses' meat,
      I know how our bodies will meld before our minds vanish....
      Driving like a marathoner out of London into the foggy future,
      the lifted Dover cliffs swelling the meridian
15    and loving my new auto's purring reach into the nebulous,
      I watch for constellations past the turning wheel while
      the shaky rearview mirror gives an intruding look."

 

From the collection "Unimagined Things"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.