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- Stillness
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STILLNESS 771202/OTT
By JC STREET © 2004
Stillness is the old rutted
road of childhood rutting
its mud-filled aftermath
Blood-filled, too, I
might add in a whimsy
thinking of bodies warm,
sweated,
but always gone
. . . . ‘ere things;
limbs in a chimera
fragments of dream
fear, morning-panic, shadows
of faces;
bubbled, smoke-rounded, risen-
from-cauldron things
Stillness;
aftermath of need the
mathematics of morning after
stillness
pondering
need
but soft,
velvet-struck skin, sun-low
afternoons, wet
leaf-dripped
wine-spent
smoke
--30--
PUTTING IN TIME 771202/0TT
By CARL EDGAR LAW
( c ) 1992
Robin red,
wind-dripped, scary –faced, luster
after shadows
The
not-there thing; all cradled
in her disco-shook heart
The sudden warmth a bear
crushing the night
“Take me home,” they chorus,
interrupting each other;
it stops the night!
“Don’t tell me babe,” she
says on the phone
Filling these shadow
holes with clones
dulls the pain
Who is the boy
on the beach with blond
hair and strange
genes a shadow-filling,
clone thing
--30—
- COMMENTS
Anonymousalmost 20 years agoI love your descriptions, you have a wonderful way of verbally illustrating things, but I just dont get the point ( where you are going) here...maybe I missed something? still, very nice images
Liaralmost 20 years ago"JCSTREET gives us Stillness, which actually contains two poems - the serene 'Stillness' and the bitter-sweet wistful 'Putting In Time', two poems with quite different direction, but that works very well together."
