{"id":10662,"date":"2019-09-10T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2019-09-26T11:37:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T10:37:53","slug":"two-poems-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=10662","title":{"rendered":"Two Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"
To Carolina Kostner on Bol\u00e9ro<\/em><\/h5>\n

XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi<\/p>\n

Because I live for the comeback
\nstaged in black\u2014cold expanse waiting
\nto be writ\u2014because I love<\/p>\n

the way one arm lifts
\nin time to what Ravel imagined as a masterpiece
\nwith no music, repetition made magic <\/p>\n

only because each shift
\nintensifies, piston or hammer
\nin the ear, I love the ice that brings us <\/p>\n

here, across the years spent counting spins\u2014
\n                         an illusionist\u2019s flight of doves,
\n\t          or samara in the rain. <\/p>\n

Because I\u2019ve walked through gray cities,
\ngray futures, I love the sudden break
\nas evidence of nothing, exactly, <\/p>\n

but the surface of things tattooed with light
\n          \tbefore a cloud elides the hill. <\/p>\n

\tI still believe in beauty\u2014
\n\t          \ta measured movement, a name fogged
\n\t                         \t\ton a bus pane.<\/p>\n

\tWhatever we love is already leaving.
\n\tWhatever we touch, dissolves.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Paradise is a Bullet Train<\/h5>\n

The slice of a parted mouth. <\/p>\n

The white peafowl
\n          \ton a manor lawn. Honeydew steeped
\n                         \t\tin its own sugar. <\/p>\n

Cold front in a high rise town.<\/p>\n

\tParadise is a man like plaited wire.
\n\t                         \tStripped to his bowstring
\n\t                                        \t\t\tback and fevered lungs.
\n                         \t\tSuperb, elegant hands. <\/p>\n

I want a man who sets sharp teeth
\n\t          \tagainst the day like an archangel holds fire.<\/p>\n

          \t I want the level mind
\n\t                                        \t\t\tthat won\u2019t give in <\/p>\n

to despair. Kisses concrete
\n          \tif it has to. Dear tongue <\/p>\n

weighted with parables.\tDear seam of an open shirt.<\/p>\n

\tParadise is a bullet train aimed at vermillion. <\/p>\n

          Hinge of a collarbone. Notch
\n                                                          \t\t so pure it hurts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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