The weary lines in your
mouth, forehead, skull
dug deep into my mouth,
face, regrets, boring holes
I didn't dare fill in. We have
little left but our tearing coughs
tugging fishhooks over our throats,
and our delirious pewter bones.
And I miss you, your isaac-asimov eyes,
your thick 1956 tongue reading books
with stories of boys called Robert and
nuclear mysteries. The chops, my frying pans
and saucepans I was given on our wedding day,
I miss your jazz records from the bookshelf
and your feet beside me in the bed.
Flowerpots shatter as you slam the door,
Steamshovels and sidewalk tiles dragging
your furious ankles; oh love,
erase your face and come back to me quietly!
isaac asimov eyes
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his picture looks like his name. in a good way. i find something very counterintuitive in a face like that, but only BECAUSE it is so blank and i assume immediately that it is intuitive in a way i could never be.
ReplyDeletei wish i could have a blank expression and still be expressing myself fully. but i don't think my blank faces look anything but drugged.
perhaps i must marry a man with a satisfactorily blankly 'whole-deep' face. if that makes sense.
p.s. looking at pictures of isaac asimov, i was disappointed by his facial hair, but only because i think they make him more humorous in appearance - less grave and plainly daring in the cut of his chin, for instance. then i was lead off track and began researching beards.org, and had an epiphany: it is WEIRD when guys grow bushes on their faces. and, a message:
ReplyDelete*controlled* facial hair, my friends, controlled facial hair.
p.p.s. i mean, "mutton chops" should be choppy, not whispy.
ReplyDeleteperhaps i missed asimov's point. ah well. i shall research his views on beard style.
ReplyDeleteah, his opinion: "...that magnificent sign of age: the beard."
ReplyDeletei suppose i shall forgive him.
there is a beards.org? i am in love.
ReplyDeleteHe just wants to express himself...
ReplyDeletedear poet friends, i have a little insulting quote that i would like to provoke you to argue against.
ReplyDelete"Poetry, the most ancient of verbal arts, finds it harder and harder to be original after having been around for at least two-and-a-half millennia. Unlike painting, it cannot go abstract; unlike music, it cannot turn atonal. 'Unfortunately for Gertrude Stein,' Herry Levin once remarked, 'words have meanings.'"
- John Simon in the Weekly Standard (not exactly a literary journal - but the quote piqued my interest - I didn't finish the article either)
lie # 1: it cannot go abstract/atonal.
ReplyDeletethat is ridiculous.
The course of poetic style from the Medieval times until now is quite as varied as the course of painting or music. This is why no one ever asks me, "hey Janie, did you write this, or was it some dude from the 1700's?"