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mirror man
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since 2001-01-08
Posts 814


0 posted 2003-08-06 05:46 AM


a hot august wind

A hot August wind blows in cups
a small cloud on the rim to expand and travel up
as the nine minute light stream
ignites the motes there wrapped in steam
and the Brownian rain of swirling rock,
all measured in single tocks.
And in the firmament of the seed
are the trees made of leaves made of beams
spaced in between more things unseen
and named, the what and the not.
And in the fable of the mind
are the shadows of the things we find.

The numbered sparrows are our clocks
and tangerines and sleek angled things
circle round the gears within the dendrite stops.
And we have warm red and beating within
and hold acrylic forests fragrant of summer sap
a million years old in our grasp.
And there is a fabric in the air
with lavender leaves in inky black,
and cool glass ridges of melted sand
hot from a megavolt thundery hand,
all which we see or see not
as the art of the Artisan.

And there is a veil behind the eye
where reflection slips on pulsing tangent ticks.
It is a small gray spot
ten degrees wide.

More will be the blue of spring
and winter green and table tops.
More will be the hand and feet.
More will be the rings,
the numbered lines and measured things.
More will be the somewhere there.
More will be the plotter’s plot.

And we will make what nature cannot
and stop
and stare.


ANNOUNCING! my novel COOL UNIVERSE is now posted in the prose forum.  Enjoy!

[This message has been edited by mirror man (08-06-2003 05:48 AM).]

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Kethry
Member Rara Avis
since 2000-07-29
Posts 9082
Victoria Australia
1 posted 2003-08-06 08:26 AM


What a novel way of advertising your novel. How wonderful, especially if it's anything like your poetry...But how will it all fit?
Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind.  Unknown



Martie
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since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049
California
2 posted 2003-08-06 12:53 PM


mirror man

Very cool universe, indeed!  Enjoyed the surreal imagery in this, and the fresh put together of words.  Good stuff!

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