Everytime a Knot Is Undone, a God Is Released by Barbara Chase-Riboud

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud [Chase-Riboud, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, collection, sculptor, Carl Sandburg Award, Renaissance Man, art, poems
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2014-11-04T05:00:00+00:00

II

I’m leaving this place,

Cheeks swollen with puffed breaths of desperate life.

Swaddled in silk sails embroidered delicately by infant hands,

I glide from mistake to mistake,

Raising my colors insolently for everyone to see,

For I am the Signifier;

The way is in me.

My convicts need no compass and my sails no wind,

For this river runs deep and this river runs straight.

This river runs wide and this river runs true.

No steel and concrete dam can alter its course;

No explosions of man-made trivia arrest its current.

I hum to myself softly and pluck on a ram’s head.

My eyes keep to his and not to the shore for I need no sign.

The moon rises behind me,

The path opens in front of me,

The mountains stay to the left of me,

The stream remains to the right of me,

IHVH crowns me and Ankh crosses me with a kiss.

Eclipse comes and the orb of the world dissolves in a pentagram.

Comets kiss stars and neighboring universes fiance hotly,

Watching ellipsoids spin and meteorites wed asteroids,

Colliding like a panicked crowd at the fire exit of space as

We pass old friends and they wave to me from the shore.

We pass worn loves and they wave to me from the shore.

We pass my children and they wave to me from the shore.

We pass my lovers and they wave to me from the shore.

My cry carried by sparrow hawks unfurls across waters:

I’m going to Memphis, I won’t be back this way,

I’m going to Memphis, I won’t be back this way,

I’m going to Memphis, I won’t be back this way,

I’m going to Memphis.

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