When Elephants Last in the Dooryard Bloomed by Bradbury Ray

Author:Bradbury, Ray [Bradbury, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Modern Classics, Novel, Poetry, Sci-fi
Publisher: Unofficial e-book edition
Published: 1975-01-01T02:00:00+00:00

THE SELF THAT LAZES SUN

Night shades a side of me

Which leans unto the North

And calls upon a polar wind to hair my spine

And fills my lungs with dread

That part of me, half-dead,

A left-hand sort of thing gone claw

Is creep and crawler on my bed;

By night I feel my spider hand cup blood

And move of its own itching pride

To throttle up my soul.

Then I have need of sun and my warmed Southern self,

My right hand called from noon

To wrestle with the dark,

To tromp the spidered clutch,

Let loose my soul in brighter gasps of climes

More yellow and more perfect

Than a Savior’s exhalations.

So noon and midnight’s self cell up in one wild flesh

And own me, each in its own time,

Or turnabout and own me in an instant fused

Where black and white twins mix to make a perfect paint

To color out my mask and make a curious sight

Within a mirror’s gaze prolong themselves

Half nights, half days.

What man is that? I ask,

Which singer of what song?

And image answers back:

The Thing That Goes By Night:

The Self That Lazes Sun.

Both answers wrong.

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