Friday, January 15, 2016

Shade’s Valentine

“ ‘Did you see the one whose corpse
was left lying on the plain?’  ‘I saw him.
His shade is not at rest in the Netherworld.’ ”
                                                       Gilgamesh
 
 
Sit sit sit sit sit
yellow is just around the corner
but for now violet gleams
to be the one who watched
the door close to the other
world is the earth the gods’
Guantanamo Bay I ask you
but to return in the morning
the lost shepherd of your dreams
having visited with your friends
the concepts of the Concept King
and then unceremoniously
dumped back into matter
waking in the same prison
in which you fell asleep
what passes now for vision
what echoes from the deep

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