Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel

Author:Frederick Seidel [Seidel, Frederick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4668-1790-6
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2009-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHRISTMAS

A man comes in from the whirl

To a room where he does yoga

High above the homeless. He runs smack

Into still space.

He sits in the air.

He hangs upside down to the floor.

A forest of severed trees,

A million needles on sale,

Christ has fragrant breath.

He faints into heightened awareness.

He levitates to the Cross.

He comes to in his own arms.

MOOD INDIGO

One was blacker.

The other one was frightened.

They cut the phone wires.

They used my neckties.

They had me on my stomach.

They tied a hangman’s noose around my neck

And stretched the rope of neckties down my back

To my wrists and ankles.

The slightest movement choked me.

He grabbed a carving knife I had

And stabbed me in the temple over and over,

While his partner looked on in horror,

And never even broke the skin,

A technique used in Vietnam.

He find the biggest knife he can

An stab this white boy pretty good

An never even break the skin,

A torture used in Vietnam.

A war there is

And stuck it in a sideburn hard

And didn’t even scratch the surface.

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