04-07-2016, 01:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2016, 01:31 PM by RiverNotch.)
UNDER THE HIJAB
The first time leaves
no subtleties of truth,
only desire -- fear -- then a trace
of vital memory.
I saw that morning
in the heart of a summer wood
what glows behind the veil,
brighter than the golden stars and leaves
traced upon the purple -- not sex,
which the Prophet says would have struck me blind,
but a substitute more vital -- and I found myself
lost in the passage of the woodbird
and the mosquito.
How many songs have I written?
How many hearts have I broken?
only to recapture that same moment,
that same stolen sight of golden hair
and ivory tower neck, then leave
still starving --
there is no second time.
Also, damn, milo -- just damn!
and i ended up clapping in delight on reading bedeep's poem -- reminded me of how i (should have) learned how to ride.
Todd, the beginning of your poem -- gradually, it turned for me into something else, something more gorgeous -- reminded me of this Dickinson poem. here it is: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/115/the-poems-...-preacher/
and massive, massive lol, ella!
The first time leaves
no subtleties of truth,
only desire -- fear -- then a trace
of vital memory.
I saw that morning
in the heart of a summer wood
what glows behind the veil,
brighter than the golden stars and leaves
traced upon the purple -- not sex,
which the Prophet says would have struck me blind,
but a substitute more vital -- and I found myself
lost in the passage of the woodbird
and the mosquito.
How many songs have I written?
How many hearts have I broken?
only to recapture that same moment,
that same stolen sight of golden hair
and ivory tower neck, then leave
still starving --
there is no second time.
Also, damn, milo -- just damn!
and i ended up clapping in delight on reading bedeep's poem -- reminded me of how i (should have) learned how to ride.
Todd, the beginning of your poem -- gradually, it turned for me into something else, something more gorgeous -- reminded me of this Dickinson poem. here it is: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/115/the-poems-...-preacher/
and massive, massive lol, ella!