My Odyssey Through the Underground Press by Kindman Michael; Wachsberger Ken

Author:Kindman, Michael; Wachsberger, Ken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Michigan State University Press

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THREE BOX POEMS

No poem is this…a shadow on the page

that could have held his song

if blazing death had not seared down through all his bones

to bring his requiem out

I wish I could give glory to this man

but words are like the pebbles on the shore

dead

to the endless living ocean of a soul

Bear witness gates of death

that I have never ceased to knock at doors

I know will never hear

Bear witness

heaven

that my love has been as great as I could bear

And know my love

I sing of you

And always will

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My face is sheeted with tears

I say

I say

that all my saints have gone

Does any other god have ears for me

or must I

unredeemed

stalk through this world wondering

why men live on and on

and gods die fast

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Will you never risk me

Not ALL things live in the light

or hang in a silver sky

like a cross

A past age will tell you how beauty was hidden

in a circle of thorns

The origin of the nightbirds song

and nights kisses

and tomorrows snow

ivory bones

revolting thoughts

unsuspected love

and blazing vision

all these strange things are known only in finality

You must dare to live in darkness

SOURCE: From American Avatar, “Fourth Cycle, First Issue” (Summer 1969): 28–41.

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