2.11.2020

a cornucopia of acorn habitats




UNDOING CAESAR

In this misty February pre-dawn dark
a Snow Moon, over silent
cedars, glows phosphorescent
silver.  Sacred thumbprint-mark

of first king (saturnine, defunct).
& I’m whorling his identity
for the FBI (maybe
some type of Memphis pharaoh-punk?)

in case we need to trace him back
to the source (Itasca
tourniquet? some kinda
hieroglyph?).  Small floaty Hobo-shack

in the heart of mudpie heartland.
Little coracle of clay
shaped for Lincoln’s birthday
maybe (Valentine’s Day).  Unmanned?

nay, manned – like a catamaran
by every air across the sun;
part of carnival season,
a gloss on Pentecost.  Mighty One

coming-forth, like hurricane or tornado
from a whisper, cave-
mouth… out of the south-
bound, multitudinous, incarnito

nexus of brownian river-motion…
out of the roaring flood
of driv-down dust, blood –
wind-sown, windblown clay… spun

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into handmade UNION, like an eye-in-hand;
sliced from the Nile-bed,
bled from Osiris-head,
bricked in a pyramid of mason-sand…

our salt earth… squared beneath an almond
lamp like hovercraft
or hydrofoil (fore-&-aft
in quatrefoil) – little fylfot countermand

(counter-clockwise emerald) out of Iona;
like a coracle of Columba
or Camelot for JFK
her Isis-essence emanates from Iowa –

West Branch of western harmony
amassing trusty Athens
& Jerusalem-to-be (Hen’s
covenant of clear spring… see?

– translucent integral of truth).
& that tall rose window
tossed (like buckets of stone
water) to the skies, is massive, Ruth –

a cornucopia of acorn habitats,
a capital of washing
towns – a Kurbsky sting
against dim Ivan coups-d’état;

or Osip vs. Iosif – MLK
withstanding FBI –
Vindman in vindication (sigh) –
humanity undoing Caesar… Hallelujay

2.10.20

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