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Bedclothes
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bedclothes
rapture? no: just the handily erotic,
the lover near at hand, the night flesh.
tonight, only: never repeated. two collide
and part, lips avoiding kisses like commitment.
and after you're gone, I take the bedclothes and,
instead of laundering, wrap myself in them,
in the remnants of your scent and warmth,
swaddle myself like an infant, and rock in the corner chair,
and remember. till the last trace of you lingers, remember.
© 1998 Arthur Durkee Arts. All Rights Reserved.
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What Vast Beasts
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What vast beasts move invisibly in us
What vast beasts move invisibly in us:
furrowing to and fro the plains of our being,
to plant desolations and joys we have not yet named.
They are dark and huge, and mostly silent:
only a rare flash of inward lightning reveals their forms,
the turn of a muscled neck, the glint of an eye or fang.
Sing, then: sing inwardly. Light the fields with barleycorn
burning effigy husks. Make them brightly puppet-dance.
Sing the snake’s water-way through the cracked earth,
uneven and lightning-forked: the feathered snake, lunging.
Sing as if life mattered, and you were still alive.
Till the inward fields with song. Harness the invisible:
each vast-shouldered shadow tamed under the hunter’s mane.
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And the plains themselves: a furrowed song,
a fallow song: till, like the corn turned under
and despairing. Every row a graveline tended
by nothingness and air. The earth’s dark breathing.
A naked woman, under a crescent moon, planting.
She weaves cornstalks into autumn tapestries.
All the earth’s colors: the sun’s, too.
A harness of nativities embracing the soil.
A man broken by blood and new-turned loam.
Rain smells, forest smells, birds calling. A storm.
The fields themselves a memory of being born:
tamed by the furrower, still wild in the winter midnight.
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© 1998 Arthur Durkee Arts. All Rights Reserved.
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Postmodern Citizen
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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan
Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more
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