{"id":4313,"date":"2014-12-07T23:17:08","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=4313"},"modified":"2014-12-07T23:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T23:39:40","slug":"four-poems-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themanchesterreview.co.uk\/?p=4313","title":{"rendered":"Four Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Lollipop for E.P.<\/em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stuck a Chupa Chup into the ground
\nBeside the grave of Ezra Pound
\nThen jumped aboard the vaporetto
\nTo lose myself in the Jewish ghetto
\nLooking for the synagogue
\nThat kept moving in the Venice fog
\nLike an apparition in the crowd<\/em>
\nWhere Jews were sometimes allowed.<\/p>\n

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\nAccompaniment at Nollendorfplatz
\n<\/strong><\/em>
\nNot blind
\nlike Mina Loy\u2019s
\nblind youth
\nblowing out
\nconcussive dark
\nupon a mouth-organ<\/em>
\nbut keeps old
\neyes shut tight
\npressing
\nthe little radio
\nradio only
\nhe can hear
\nto his mangled
\nbadger ear
\ntho what he pumps
\non his harmonica\u2014
\nboiling
\nmuesli sewage
\nsteam shovel
\nswamp wheeze
\nbackfiring
\ndiaphragm cannon
\nintergalactic
\ncheese chump
\nvomit instigators
\nroofless
\nloose esophagus
\npowerline
\nin a puddle
\ncheeks cramping
\nin revolt
\njerking the
\nbody every
\nfurious
\nsour suck
\n& gust
\npure tonic
\n102 cents worth
\npitched straight
\nto the attic
\nhe\u2019s killing
\ntime and
\ndrilling
\nher to the core
\nPresley hips
\nlooser than a
\nstripped bolt
\nstubbly
\nshadow-faced
\nPythagoras
\nwhere\u2019d you get
\nthat super bad shirt
\nbuttoned &
\ntucked in so nice
\nessential embellishment
\ndestitute of
\ntone row
\nStammstrecke
\nelegy for fluorescent-
\ntopped whores in
\nsuccession
\non B\u00fclowstrasse
\nyour stiff pants
\ncarefully cuffed
\nascending descending
\nfearsome anti-
\nharmonizer
\nwithout cup
\nto collect, giving
\nit up for free
\non the free-reed
\nand when you
\nstop and step
\nfrom the spot
\nof a broken
\nsymmetry
\nyour eyes
\nlook right
\ninto me and
\noh! that smile
\nis the crooked
\ncrown in the
\nkingdom
\nof a universal
\nminor key.<\/p>\n

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\nRilke at the Jardin des Plantes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The zoo<\/em>, said Rodin, go find your animal there
\nAnd learn its every mood & manner, every motion,
\nThen picture it in language (and get out of my hair)<\/em>.
\nNow the poet\u2019s quick step extends his devotion,<\/p>\n

To part curtain between intimacies, probe his way in.
\nLips moist with morning mist touch the deeper breathing.
\nSoon he\u2019ll know by seeing a dark obduracy burning.
\nHe feels his fingers wandering the shapeless stone.<\/p>\n

Turns a corner. There\u2019s the cage, the sign, some straw.
\nBut where\u2019s the great cat he\u2019s looking for\u2014
\nIn the empty cage, the emptiness is more.<\/p>\n

Sailor on a black sea without stars. He paces the desolation of the cage,
\nTurns and paces back, an ever-tightening circle. And an ancient understanding
\nExceeding measure sours unlike wine, ages without age,<\/p>\n

And a sharp new negative presses him through the bars.<\/p>\n

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\nSisu is Finnish for Tenacity<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The poet’s Collected Butterflies
\ndisplayed behind glass in the Nobelmuseet<\/p>\n

volume after volume sprung open
\nthe powdered alphabet of patterned wings<\/p>\n

and in the case nearby
\nthe famous letters to another poet<\/p>\n

like thoughts for new poems
\nthat waffle from view while rubbing a wife\u2019s back<\/p>\n

and the other poet’s less famous replies
\ntapping against the transparency, fluttering<\/p>\n

fingers figuring out a jumbled score . . .
\nIt really is an unbearable correspondence.<\/p>\n

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