7.11.2006

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So much rain toppled on our juggled race
we were as on a distant, moister planet;
blindly we moped along, making a circuit
where we meant to draw a line. The place


was unfit for a pilgrimage. Bellicose
with bees and bugs, a broken Belgium
(crocus belli, abject, burnt in gloom).
We floundered on - blinkered, morose;


we sought a scapegoat for a game of fear
and found one (some fabled hermaphrodite
the sailors fetched - covered in frostbite!);
stumbled ahead... and struck Capella's anchor


with our feet. Somehow we'd hit bottom.
Where was the ship? Rotating overhead?
The iron itself was tightly filigreed -
cartwheeling polka-dots, a wired A-frame...


and lettered there in hieroglyph, we read:
the ship is nought; you must rebuild the ship;
otiose Atlantis, dozing Z (your smoked fillip
of corny Amsterdams) are zeroed, zed;


you float upon the Nile (an oozing iris
of desire)
. Scattered hoots savored the jungle.
That grim report of some unruly Amazon
jangled our nerves - some angry Pocahontas


scrambled the rune for us
! And left a maze
meant to confound. Umbilical, the strangled
vintage clapped obdurate palms... angled
at unseen light... umbering crazed castaways.

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