The Porcupinity of the Stars by Gary Barwin

Author:Gary Barwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2010-10-13T00:00:00+00:00

PROVERBS 1:20

In the city of voices, she throws her voice

and the multitudinous ears of the crowd catch.

Wisdom she preaches by the gates of reproach,

and in the city of sayings, she says:

I pour my spirit over you and, wearing no coat, you must listen.

I use words to make my words known,

stretch out my hands but you clasp not my tongue.

When will the scorners cease their scorning,

the faces of fools face facts?

My jeers sit astride your calamities like a hurricane,

and as a jockey I deride your fear.

Like home invaders, adversity and distress burst through the door,

then fear and calamity appear on the threshold

dressed up for Halloween.

I’ve snuffed the candle in the pumpkin,

turned the porch light dark.

Inside the broken ark of your brain,

knowledge is a blackbird braided by shadow

shredding the holy books to nest.

You’ve made your bed of salt,

now for every season there’s a path through the brine.

Do not eat your own counsel only.

The simple slay themselves with their own advice,

a sword without edges, and are cleft by feathers.

Live in my voice, for whosoever hearkens to me

dwelleth confidently, and has flight without sky.

Be quiet from fear of evil.

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