Wednesday, October 8, 2008

8.10.08

masulisch 16 grotesque it "the kingdom of heaven means nothing


shrouds

-ere

the dashing rage of cottaged clouds

in bewildered atmosphere


weightless mountains loom


monument swells fall

to rise in musical fury of cyclones again

a white chaos from the moon


Like thin, false hands balled up in shrouds

That shred as they appear,

it snakes along the breakers’ backs

taking any water for its tracks

the black water crawls like lava


and plummets down the glassy slope

a locomotive on a rope of smoke


-eads

the firemen with wolfhound heads

and black and brawny hands

shovelling charge

the bellowing hearth

-ands


hurtle on like a comet without need

joyous in wild nightmare of speed


incurable dream of illness,

voluptuous and insane.


perch ministers, like spiders and owls



plunge

like a pendant over heaving breast

the reckless engine dangles

down elastic eversion of their triangles

-est




Or a man about to drown.

Braids of foam, a hollow column,


acres of green hood


they lean far from the windows

when they reach

the reeking bottom of the waves

the cars bristle in nervous rows

of long boathooks and nets on staves


they look to see what chance will bring them

in eerie moment before the rise


one crazed fisher lunges so far his friends

must batten on his coat and arm to drag him in again


mow the reeking bottom of the wave

to bid on the briny armor


baleful moonlight

whose lividity embosses

pinions of raven albatrosses

with women’s cries borne forth on the blast

the howls of furies ring out like brass


cleats


by the train’s flanks in great gouts he breathed,

in mania rolled, in spume enwreathed,


the (whale) which even archaic name outspans


projects

the cyclopean trunk of his sex


by mistake or - who will say? –

the monster couples with the train

mad amorous altercation flung in disarray of

the sharp clouts of titan heart’s pulsation


the people hilarious


the tempest

of power unencircled




The engine garlanded in sperm

laved in unliving alive witch light -aved


Moon - delirious


Sky - demented


Sea - depraved


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