Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A Modern Covenant
A Modern Covenant
1) Once,
far between primordial centuries of armorial barbarity
soiled interments of grim puddled mud
lingered freshly in grave pools
of latent noonday sorrow
as
fragmented afternoon dooryards
intimated quaintly
a reserved panegyric
for
stray
fallen
angels whom
toiled wearily
whither
Cain and Lucifer
scour
menial earthen
perimeters
quavering slothfully
beneath
dull sanguine shrouds of
formidable medieval sacristies
2) We,
(the prehistoric cobbler and I)
tarried slavishly
onto cinereous equators
among
tarn yellow trees
diffusing irradiate
shards of
glistening heat
up
reddened country
hillsides
whither
refulgent scales of
inferious light
dispelled
sulky shades of
luminous hue
throughout
moonlit sunflower meads
as
lemon
yellow dill petals
descend
gradually downward
among
whitened woodland
mountain clefts
of sullen Winter
solemnly into
God's inexorable
existence the
Spring and Autumn
the
autumnal springing
of caterpillar mayflies
and
brier-fire bumblebees
preeminently whirred
amidst
greened droning vineyards
(meticulously colored
consequently congruent
and
translucently interwoven)
throughout
ageing decades of
thinned elderly fingertips,)
3) Anon,
her Kafkaesque laughter
castrated an oblique mouth-reed
or two, or how 'bout
3?
1.) Ms Beatrice: the opaque convalescent
2.) Frederic: an after-hour confectioner
and
3.) me,
promptly defunct in bleak arthroscopic retrospect
scoffed up against tiled mid-afternoon porcelain
then residentially reposed upon a
worn furbished divan
(burnished in licentious reinterpretations
of a solely apocalyptic inertia,
where
leftover rubble's been
sententiously swept
under a nineteenth century
whatnot of illustrious veneer
4) Mrs. Henriette Ivanhoe
erected a paper machete pinata at a quarter past three,
momentarily slithered by the boudoir,
her men departed
and dowry padded
remote church-bells pealed in an adjacent foyer
below marmoreal pillars
aloof sallow evening portraits
seethed as flickering shadows
dispelled grey vestiges of
sullen city alleyways
(Algerian framed window emasculate)
5) Was,
it the undulating woodwind era
or was it
the
(lackadaisical aerodynamic epoch)
between silken bed-sheets
her and
I spoke in sourly tongues of her late brother's deviation,
of Mother Pitcairn's back-toothed haunches
her dissolute
Portuguese candelabra hung luridly in decorative crimson casement
silhouetted kitchen shawls swaddled
loose urban faucets
embossing a warm southern atmosphere
as coiled screen door awnings
reverberated
whilst
somewhere along a craggy western peninsula
transient autumn courtyards
of
yore's implacable nostalgia
and
yesteryear's awed asphyxiated bohemian children
mercilessly pleaded in Friday's fiery strongroom
to an inevitable apex
of acquiescent disposal
surmising
veteran Vietnam
purgatories
of ashen
vestibules leaden
with diminutive dusk filled water-holes
allotting
dastardly barroom decadence
along
dingy dust-filled cupboard upholstery
melding
deadened dead-end soil,
(a concrete fuselage of consecrated inertness)
ii. (your ass as my refuge )
What is the
deal with
those loose Russian roulette hips
and russet coquette lips
of rite and repertoire
a demonic pendant
thrives at corporeal depth
of
ye continental nave
yea, my ken was off
your ass to thine
yea, one,
two
many
enough!
as you dry-heaved in placid climax
onto our irreproachable timeline
dispensing diminutive orbs of fluorescent heat
as infernal daytime shadows
circumambulated
pale seductive wrists
yea, ingratiatingly sober,
her despondent dialogue fluctuated
somewhere between eastern dreams
of Jersey's coastal tideland
and morning's sinuous seas
where
bayou buoys swayed lifelessly askew
under the scope of bleak Massachusettes
(a reckless cohesiveness)
iii (those empyrean evenings and I)
as grave celestial clouds rolled anon
immense azure waves of coastal Atlantic
heaving, reflected
ethereal moonbeams
brimmed in twilit translucency
of
oceanic brine
and blue delint brilliancy
your beatific eyne to me
as two hygroscopic jewels
twain in
dazzling emerald phosphor
our wayward children rest
ill at ease tonight
recklessly latched onto an reluctant yoke of
last Saturday's bludgeoned goat
when you're bleeding in decrepit intervals
asleep you're
irresistible when you dream you're
angelical, coquettish as
the ashen oak of penitence,
how blissfully fed I am!
in our terrestrial lair
your bedroom sill curtain shook
as frost-bitten weed in downy morning fields
dissembled
on fervently seeing
your pallid face
peer askance
a distant pier
to
iv ( water-stallion pavilion)
the sky wept softly in spectral intermediacy
we had coffee and talked for a while
picked up a bar tab before work
then asked if a local train still ran
to city hall
v (an indistinct conduit)
months passed seasonally
as her flossy negligee
and I
zealously convulsed
to obscure notions of
you in braided
camisole delicately
clutching
wily furs of
soon extincted
coyotes
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