Reynolds & Midway XXXVI.

                                                                        for Kenneth (two of them)
                                                                     fromderinside & kennethamy

                                     

is the # of angels who can stand on the

head of a pin ° the number of angels 0

alienangels dancing dying on Jupiter's

methane hurricane that Richard Kenney 

utterd whilst I waterd the porcelain garden

gold golden rains how many angels/

angles right o square how many Romans

they go   you must use theee?   if it's not up

by sunrise       10 x around the palace

signs of consciousness in Pita's couplets

flickrd, misrememberd come ! Come let us

plant & build & till the earth & live 1 000

yrs this time that slippery silverfork we will

freely unheed & stand naked & w out shame

before our Father, you & I, for He loves

us much very & we will wend the wilderness

merry, man & woman proud & adore Him

Holy Holy Father Maker & mother ing

young & ancient tomorrow a million billion

yesterdays & Yes yes the music the evolution

greening blowing blooming crack & crunch

of cells atomic blood gears upon gears wheels

gears wheels motion moving Boyleing in blossom

in perpetuity & timeless pinpoint  now  non

motion unchange in chains chains wheels

gears seeds seeds seeds seeds wheels born

births GOD yes born & born & born again

cycles wheels time angels in Jupiter dying

dancing protons neutrons electrons whales arks &

archwhales chains wheels in deep sea space

absent cold hot void spiralling black points .s

mas .s & more to A point  Julian of Norwich

she the point pointed to in eloquence & Love

that all shall be well & all manner of things

shall be well in Christ Jesus Lord God Son Holy

Sun bright  bright Son   Light     The Light

and . Of GOD the sum of all       Almighty

One 1 & 0 Zero  zeroes        Omega ± Alpha

man made Maker made man & machine &

gears atoms blades stems seeds milk Mother

rest eternal black       void        void              v

° 'or' in Spanish

1.30.2014

Love (erasure poem; from William Shakespeare's "A Lover's Complaint")

From a reworded story

this double voice

fortified beauty

Time had not scythed

her levell'd eyes spheres

tied To the orbed earth

Her hair Proclaim'd pride

Hanging

she in a river weeping

applying wet to wet hands

gave the flood

silk and curious secrecy

Cried witness and damned in rage

    A reverend man

    a blusterer privileged by age

   'Father '

she says 'in me

The injury of many hath power

might spreading to myself

Love to myself

to gain grace'

That maiden made 

     him hang

    Small show of man

    his visage wavering

    without beauteous form

    falseness the sway he makes

quickly the verdict went

    his case

made not 

   his tongue did sleep

all passions in 

   his will

granted their own will

imagination in thought

labouring never touch'd

    his heart

woeful affections Reserved

Finding honour shielded

the foil

Of this jewel 

   his amorous

spoil

destined

forced

  put peril in her way

stop

rage    blood    fear

o Reason weep and cry

'This 

   man's foul

   in deceit vows defiling

   Thought and word

   bastards of his foul heart

I held

afraid

blood

Love     made not

true nor kind

shame

so much in me remains

how much reproach

my heart so much

Harm

heart wounded

Of grief

and effects of terror

but fighting

twisted weepingly

    With stone's nature hard

    Weak sickly wit made moan

    hot Of subdued desires

yield I myself

    to you

I their altar

    you

advance 

   Whose white command

   Hallow'd with sighs burning me

under you

   comes sanctified of holiest note

  Which kept cold distance and did thence remove

To spend

what is

    The thing we have not

    mastering

    Playing Playing unconstrained?'

She scars of battle

valiant her force

put out 

    Religion's eye

'How mighty you are O hear me

broken bosoms that to me belong

emptied all their fountains

I pour your ocean strong and you being strong

Must for your victory

compound love to your power

in grace

Believe when 

    they assail

All vows and consecrations giving bond 

space 

In thee    For thou art all

     wilt      inflame impediments

stand forth! Love's arms are peace

The aloe of all 

     force

Now hearts on mine depend

Feel it break with bleeding groan

    the battery

soft to that strong-bonded oath'

This said eyes were levell'd

Each cheek a river running

O how the stream gave grace

glowing

flame through water

    O father what hell

In the small tear

What rocky heart

What breast is not warm here?

    his passion

    resolved to white chastity

    Shook off he appears melting

    His poison a plenitude of

    swooning paleness

    he best

    To blush to turn white

Show nature kind

    When he most burn'd in heart

    He preach'd and praised

    concealed fiend

    cover'd

    fell.

1.16-17.14

Reynolds & Midway XXXV.

Where went the black sedan when the night closed

and winter whisperd crisp among the streetlights;
when jealous husbands cruncht on bully tires
slowly around the 'one-night cheap hotels'
where behind counters weary nite clerks dozed

& bolted televisions droned w/ smut

or local news & radiators billowd
easy heat for traveling salesmen, tight
Canadian nookie peddlars, tired tourists,
& wand'ring souls with ulcers in the gut

who read in Gideon's bible the smeard print

of thumbs that also lookd for consolation
or possible escape routes from the gaze
of God Who watchd over each motor lodge
& sent his angels in the cautious squint

of housekeepers, Who gleamd in their dark eyes,

their brown & callusd fingers; where repose
was written in the hint of areoles,
the subtle contours of the pelvic carriage,
the music of trilld speech, the clack of keys?

Hidden by smokestaind blinds the long legs stretcht

along a borrowd bed; a borrowd wife
beneath his writing arm, the flaccid bicep
hairless, harmless as a sleeping child's,
& at the wrist a fat, gold-banded watch

where time clickd like the crash of distant glass.

In one more hour, he thought, timing his thought
to each slow shift & breath of her whose sleep
was precious to them both, and I'll have come
of age. Close by, determined headlights passd.

1.16-17.14

Reynolds & Midway XXXIV

Genesis 34

When Dinah, child of Leah, went out to see

the 'daughters of the land', she was 'defiled'
by Shechem, who then cleavd to her & wisht
her for a wife. & then a bloody mess.
To my small mind, also to speak the truth,
at least the shade of it dimly aglow
in the pink & bloody meat of my simple heart:
The man's a beast who takes an innocent
by his mere muscle, by a fashiond arm,
or under threat of any kind of harm—
a beast, no more. Christ, may his balls be severd,
his name dishonord, shamed. May this petition
be thought of, Lord, by You, & God the Father,
an he wld genuflect, & mock contrition.

1.3.2013