<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535638" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of Ancient Mastodon, Sleepy Bee & Young Men Who Leap Too Soon From Bridges - Nightingale Confesses Into Straighter Teeth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'...descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to God.' - Hart Crane</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pueri aeterna, septem cadens<br>Etiam plures ad</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The boys eternal, seven falling<br>Too many more to come </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Jamey Rodemayer <br>Tyler Clementi<br>Raymond Chase<br>Asher Brown<br>Billy Lucas<br>Seth Walsh<br>Justin Aaberg</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sub olivae, pacem<br>Ut vos omnes adoremus orientatio</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Under the olive trees, peace<br>May you all adore this orientation</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>******</div><div style="margin:10px 0">&quot;I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their <br>hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once <br>hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.&quot; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- James Baldwin</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>'Ignacio goes up the tiers<br>with all his death on his shoulders.<br>He sought for the dawn<br>but the dawn was no more.<br>He seeks for his confident profile<br>and the dream bewilders him<br>He sought for his beautiful body<br>and encountered his opened blood</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not ask me to see it! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">- Federico Garcia Lorca*</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>1</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Even the pigeons on my stoop are silent now.<br>One mourning dove coos tenderly for these who<br>have taken their own lives publicly on our behalf, <br>for those many gone before them, broken hearts<br>enraged, no more to engage the unpersuaded<br>world which, one of them, one of the public ones, <br>in spite of murmuring wharves, in spite of amorous<br>dark alleys bitter in the pitch of the last hateful<br>American Century, Hart Crane, wrote before his leap<br>from the ship beside the phallic curve where Cuba<br>meets the lisping sea, took his tongue away which<br>sang of chill dawns breaking upon bridges whose<br>spans still freely splinter light returning hungover<br>from the night wharves, grottoes, and denim World<br>Wars, industrial embraces crushing every man and<br>now another one abandons his fingers and fiddling<br>to scattering light, takes flight from ledges to<br>edge close to an embrace no longer forbidden -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And so it was I entered the broken world<br>to trace the visionary company of love...' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am at the 'Way of Peace Bistro, ' where the server <br>Alberto whose cousins are the famous Wolf Boys in <br>Jalisco, Mexico, hirsute himself, gives me free double <br>espressos so I may hear his confession, who only just <br>yesterday came out to me in my confessional booth <br>here at the perpetually wobbly table in the far corner <br>at the cracked window rocking with Hart's un-confessed <br>bones wrapped in soothing silt which he now dreams <br>to be his silken pall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is indeed strange above the veiled bottom. <br>I do receive confessions here where I weekly haunt <br>for studying, writing, chasing down dreams, waves, <br>receding horizons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why, I wonder, is each window where I sit cracked? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am the itinerant priest who sits at meager feasts.<br>Suffering congregants, forlorn over their starfish <br>and soup, ask about dreams, confess to anguish, ask <br>what should be done. I consult espresso foam, open <br>the nearest book at hand willy nilly to see what advice <br>or wisdom might be gained from That which, we hope, <br>indiscriminately sustains us all here straining after <br>some realing thing to keep us going when Hart and <br>those too recent others obey some impulse to place <br>at last the final period, reifiying the punctuate <br>though unrepentant ending of this too too long run-on <br>sentence of hate. One hopes this period holds fast, <br>that Logos/meaning is somehow, plates of starfish <br>with fork and knife beside, true or truing at least.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One serves where needed. And when. <br>So come unto me you 'sad young men.<br>All the news is bad again so kiss your dreams goodbye.'**</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here at my confessional I can only plead mercy upon the boys<br>who have jumped from bridges, hung themselves, cut, sliced their<br>compulsive hands, exploded hearts, leaping dears eyes ablaze in<br>thrall of antlers, trembling flanks strong to fly decrying the<br>violent hunt which always ends in a death bequeathing these<br>chopped bits to me and to others like me who remain at table, <br>plates before, to stare at what is to be later scattered, sown, <br>these pieces in and for Love-without-name still a stain upon<br>confused local deities and their wild-eyed supplicants.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>But there is no stain upon the promiscuous sea. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The compliant sky is not confused. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neither is all that is between confused, <br>allowing birth and blessing, passing of <br>all kinds in all manner of motive and motion. <br>But in the human world, distressing, there <br>will be more boys, more men growing up as <br>from the very beginning where earliest enmity <br>mythically grew strong before shoes, before <br>hearts were capable of breaking, before turgid <br>theological floods spilled blood of brother <br>by brother turning witness stones toward silence, <br>echoing lamenting Federico, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do not ask me to see it! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't want to see it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will not see it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I, but perhaps we, who remain to plant these <br>petaled parts of these unwitting scapegoats whose <br>eyes are milk now forever, we must bar sentimentality, <br>must move toward genuine knowing which comes from <br>the long hard stare beyond Milky Ways at the way <br>things still inexorably are. 'Nothing gets better - <br>or changes for the better - until it is what it is.' <br>But the falling ones, half-way to eternity while <br>here and eschewed, know what the 'is' is of the matter, <br>that it is the others, too many of them, who don't <br>or won't know, who willingly refuse to see 'what is' <br>in order to reach beyond the collective NOT SEE<br>solutions' of hetero-normative culture/religion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps even in the deepest fault of the ocean that <br>very visionary company - in league with stuporous <br>pigeons, a mourning dove, me here who remains-not <br>-yet-remains, tearful over my espresso looking for <br>signs, finding only an endlessly fracturing rainbow, <br>remembering, too, the murmuring secrets of wharves <br>and co-mingled breath - that very visionary company <br>traces all the sunken ones, the jumping ones, those <br>with other means for departure by their own hands <br>empty now of demands for love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here I sit, arthritic living hands still <br>demanding, remembering full of past and <br>present griefs the Violin with a cut throat <br>in a youthful suicide once writ years ago, <br>hidden, hiding out, refusing to shout my <br>rage to Almighty 'Nothing-But': </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not hear nothing but the cabin walls, <br>do not hear nothing but late summer roses<br>petal by petal leaping from the still too <br>white trellises, leaping pinkly, redly, <br>memory to breezes, overwhelmed by trellises <br>shagged with cut sleeves.***</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But not me. Not yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't want to see it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will not see it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the mute page, the Violin refusing to sing </div><div style="margin:10px 0">- in love with Garcia Lorca, <br>the goring horn of the Bull, <br>the destined cornada - </div><div style="margin:10px 0">each and all appalling, commanding 'Write' <br>in long nights working where the mentally ill <br>wandered with me, keys ironically in my hand, <br>the yellowing hallways with even more ironic <br>EXIT signs brightly RED above the locked doors, <br>silent companions somnolent but for the jangling <br>joke of the keys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do not ask me to see it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don't want to see it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I will not see it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Still, I have now these better days in the Village, <br>broke or near to it, with eggs and beans, cheap but <br>edible things. An epicurean after all, I do luxuriously <br>head to the Polish butcher shop nearby to gather meat <br>but not any of the young butchers want to be gathered <br>- too Catholic - for Poland is 'passing strange' with <br>bad teeth, fingers stained with nicotine. Or is it rust <br>from once Curtains of Iron, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or the Blood of the Acetylene Virgin? ****</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I get my meat, cook my greens and things, have good-enough feasts for garlic and the right spice make grander the demanded abstemiousness of current coin. I purloin my pleasure during eats in my dirty yet happy apron with recordings of poetry, lectures or a good aria or two to salt my food with tears, a blubbering fool beside his one low watt lamp, darkness too too comfortable like a pooch or cat at feet. What is that bleating in the darker corner? I shall wait for daylight to see what it can be. And if I can I shall free it from it's trap and in doing so perhaps free me from all this, all this witnessing as life demands I must, of young ones setting themselves free because they are forced to do so by collective psychopathology now rendered even more effective and efficient via technology, via internet, emphasis upon the 'net', where the ills set free from Pandora's Modem have only begun to be revealed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I shall use that 'net' and my still goodly paper and goodly pen to dim whatever ill tides there are and to come, as they surely will in spite of low wattage. I'll jangle keys on the night watches reading my mystic books, making my prayers with roamers of wards and wharves glancing up, considering bridges, edges, silty bottoms. The tides are here even now. But right now I wish to sing a lullaby in protest to those hurting departed, even to those coming ills, that I may sing innocence dumbly back to those who may come ashore again more gently having forgotten enforcing depths insisting them toward resistant yet resolved embraces...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>...So breech then, waves. Feet first. Heads in the brine. I shall keep time on your wrinkled toes sticking up from the sand, play peek-a-boo. Then while you sleep I shall harvest gently, place them firmly in that old woman's shoe...'there was an old woman who lived in a shoe, had so many children she didn't know what to do'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She may yet have learned what to by now.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>I haven't. But for my one strange harvest here below...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>2</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Somniculosus Apis, Sleepy Bee<br>Ascendit infra me, He rises beneath me<br>Deus absconditus placet, The hidden God is pleased</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He is busy even as I write this preparing a repast for many paying guests who will watch him cook sacred chilies of his Mother's garden born, who will hear him sing their praises...Krishna was over yesterday, nervous and excited about it all. Working out regularly at the gym he is now very toned, muscular in a good way, not too pumped in exaggerated lumps, and he is even more radiantly beautiful/handsome than when we first met beside the cardamom and the ghee in the intoxicating basement of the Indian spice and food shop not easily hidden, such aromas are not to be tucked down like the shop is beside and below the avenue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Which flower should I adorn my table with? I ask, approaching shyly beside the spice bins. I buzz inside, a bee for the nectar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If you serve, said he, If you serve with cardamom and ghee then flowers three are best, the jasmine, the oleander, the anthurium. But if choosing only one, he looks at me, something insistent, responding, in his eyes, I would choose for you the anthurium.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so we began our time together, the cooking lessons, the first demur approaches, the blushing papayas, then the fires, the chilies harvested, curtains drawn. One day perhaps I to shall fall but in this way: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I shall fling back the curtains<br>Open the window<br>Throw cut sleeves for years<br>gathered, hidden, to the street.<br>Shouting out names of lovers, <br>I shall then leap openly into life<br>land softly upon the Autumn<br>ginkgo leaves and, golden, <br>kiss every parked car<br>on the street leaving<br>lips like leaves and all<br>the cut sleeves in love<br>with all the world and if<br>not all the world then<br>all the cars and a fiddle <br>dee dee for the fall of me</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Yesterday I coached him on slowing down as he speaks (his accent is thickly, richly Tamil) , how to enunciate each syllable. He had several stories to choose from which he may relate to the guests, all of which he related to me, a sweet one of him as a little boy waking up at dawn, asking his dear mama for an omelet to eat: </div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'Sleepy Bee, ' she called to him. 'Go, my Sleepy Bee, to the garden and be sure to smell the jasmine there, touch softly the spices in trembling rows, fetch then some chilies of many colors and I will prepare for you a dish as you wish. When the teacher makes you sleepy by noon reach then your fingers to your face, smell the spices there, remember the touch of smooth skinned chilies whispering of lingering liaisons to come, and you will brighten my Sleepy Bee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A chili omelet she would make, a side of yogurt to soothe the burn, and milk from the cow drawn before dawn's first udder swelled against the press of distant hills where even the Temple soundly sleeps so very full and pleased with itself. Mother, each morning as he stumbles, rubbing his eyes, into the garden, tells him, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may shout if you wish to wake</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Temple for the cow cannot speak -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wake up! Awake! Make haste! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord Indra comes! Prepare the wicks, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the incense sticks for His Holy Fire! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hasten! Hurry! Quicken! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There beside Lord Indra's captured fire in the little grate her Bee awakens watching her slow movements, the slicing of chilies, the removal of seeds, the washing again of plump hands, the cracking of eggs, beating them with the whisk, spreading ghee upon the hot flat stone, the enchantment of liquid whites and yokes becoming firm, becoming food. She turns them in round rhythms as she rhythmically prays.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After eggs and chilies are eaten comes the rose oil poured upon his raven hair smoothly brushed back to reveal his shining face, his smile. She prepares him for school with kisses, his uniform freshly cleaned, ironed, smelling, too, of rose-flavored soap. Then off to school with a lunch, a string of chilies of all colors sewn together, sewn when he was still in a waking dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'The chilies may burn, ' he tells me, speaking slowly, enunciating each syllable, practicing through smiles, returning to my gaze. 'But not like the touch of my mother's hand. She is far away but I can feel her burning hands on me now.' He smiles. I stammer. How can one enunciate such wonder? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Visionary company, Krishna, his mother, and me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>I have been encouraging Krishna (which is a funny thing to say, Krishna being a bold, blue God) to find a language coach to help him with his accent, to tone it down while keeping the wonderful music/lilt of it and he's going to do that...he complains of tilting his head as he talks 'as all Indians do' but I insist he merely speak and let his head and hands speak, too, in their own way. If he does more public events he will need to be understood clearly when he speaks while preparing his magnificent dishes from his country, his rich feasts of stories of the chilies from his mother's garden entwined by morning glories, the morning cock already at quarrel with the world just beyond the tin reaching in to take some spices too enticing to refuse...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I always feel as if he is, or will soon be, bored with me and my humble 'ministrations' but he sweeps into my little 'box-doir' - you recall how tiny my expensive studio on the 5th floor is! - like a Raj, a young prince beaming, brimming full of stories to tell me, usually some food, spicy hot, he has prepared for me, offered with a grin. Then he strips instantly down, lays upon the down pallet in easy, unabashed nakedness - it catches my breath, I do want to see! - checks his Blackberry for the latest cricket scores while I hurriedly 'hide' my Ganesha, the prominent statue of the god I have in front of my useless fireplace; this hiding I half understand...but still, naked, he has a fresh and beautifully made tattoo of Ganesha on his shoulder, he wears a Ganesha necklace, a Ganesha bracelet, and a Ganesha waist scapular, the image of which is just below his navel. So why, I ask only myself and Ganesha, never Krishna, why must I hide my large wooden Ganesha statue? But I do hide Him in deference to Krishna's wishes and meanwhile have intercourse with the god-in-miniature, scraping a necklace trunk with an ear, a tongue, receive a scapular kiss of the image upon my forehead as I trace those wonderful hairlines of the male body on my way to other deities.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! give me all the beans in the world in all my poverty! Am I not, too, a Raj of floors and scented pillows, this beaming god beneath me thrusting utterly to reveal his secrets, his desires, his pleasures to me who am not a god? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life, dear Valdosta, over all, is good, yes? I wish it no ill. But, agreeing with the cock, I will quarrel, even fight, with life when young men still leap too soon from bridges because I have learned (and relearn it hard lesson by hard lesson at a time) visionary company insists its tracings in many forms, man to man being but one holy expression, those sons, burning mother's hands upon them demanding, insisting to life that each her sons is a rajah, a Sleepy Bee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So please the intemperate humanity, in the face of patient deities the burning ones are leaping still and I am ill with grief, with prayer, their dead bodies gone, their now emptier hands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And he leaves me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>I return to my poems.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The room is filled with Krishna, aromas of rose oil in his hair, pungent spices in his sweat and upon his hands and skin, and sex.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I retrieve Lord Ganesha out from his little sanctuary of hiding (it seems I am always retrieving deities) and we both laugh richly. I remember to sprinkle some cologne upon Him, to pour out some milk into His votive bowl, to rub His belly, to light another candle (the other extinguished, panting, while we were busy bees exchanging knees and sighs, diffusing male spices into bracing air, fingers upon oily chilies thickening in always morning hunger) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I light more incense and thank the Lord Ganesha in all his forms, appearing both large and small, His adornment of Secrets, though one cannot easily hide an Elephant, man-love and more in such a small infinite universe whose toes I seek to tickle then gather for a shoe as tides shrink and swell, grow and diminish depending upon the worshipers, those who will do so in spite of those who would kill delicate or manly infidels whose worship, forever babies breath, is all the more meaningful.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be damned the trellises. The petals shall reach, shall extend outward.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The violin's throat cut.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Do not ask me to see it! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, Ganesha restored to His rightful place; good-natured about being hidden, it is back to the kitchen, the slicing of the onion, the crushing of the garlic, the pouring of the wine, the selecting of the greens and washing them of the clinging sand and grit they kindly bring, then to the pot to cook them in, the meat to go with, and begins the fire, O Indra, more aromas extend into, entwine with what Krishna has left to me and the god and I am grateful, full of heart, for each time he is here is a miracle. A grace. Mother India with hot hands gifts me one of Her Raj's who graces me with his presence evoking praise bestowed from oft bitter lips and tongue made the more bilious by aging, aching joints, laxer muscles, and yet the encroaching decrepitude is bent and stretched, the better for the wear from Krishna's 'half nelsons' and yogic overreaches. More the better for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet I remain bitter, too, from the senseless loss of young men who could not endure, no fault of their own, for sure, who leap from bridges, forced to by killing edges broken open within and by hateful, fearful others forgetting, if ever had, those restorative burning constancies of a Mother's hands upon them</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have placed your picture, dear Valdosta, upon my altar beside Lorca's portrait, and Hart Crane's young face, the image of a sweet Christ holding a lamb en perpetua, and the yellowed newspaper clipping from Spain of the Matador's death, along with photos of the young men in the past two weeks who have joined Hart becoming ghostly visionary company. They now remain forever chaste not having lived long enough to be wasted, emptied of love from loving deeply out into love for more love, endlessly bleeding out like our Lorca, a corrida of laurel encircling his head no longer remembering but remembering only one sound, guns exploding outward, extending, bullets, petals, one by one beyond the wall where he stood stunned, 'how young and handsome are assassins' faces', he flew backward in the wall graced with his brave shadow then his blood until he fell. I believe he fell hard for life demands it as does death which will continue its duende.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Love, as Hart and all hearts love, is still a vision not yet fully, solidly formed in spite of stones and walls forgetting noble shadows, but there are foolish Krishnas, restoring Krishna-moments, patient hidden gods though human hearts and bodies remove themselves from the potter's wheel too early, too broken, too tired, too alone to try to shape love from Love from the tiny shard, the remnant bone of the ancient mastodon, the last one, dreaming within each heart of that Love which all Nature yearns for.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pray for my inherited brood of brothers, and remember to be gay for all the gray afternoons in this sad but forgiving confessional, while not forgetting mine and the cock's quarrel with life, in the booth by the cracked window near the corner of 7th and Second.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am yours, bleating, sometimes crowing, but almost always bestowing praise. I am loved, Valdosta, and I love you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>N. Nightingale</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>******************</div><div style="margin:10px 0">*Opening quote is from Lorca's elegy, 'Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">** The Ballad of the Sad Young Men</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Music written by: Tommy WolfLyrics written by: Fran Landesman</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(best version sung that I know of is by an aged Mabel Mercer in concert, hard to find it now)  </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sing a song of sad young men<br>Glasses full of rye<br>All the news is bad again so<br>Kiss your dreams goodbye</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men<br>Sitting in the bars<br>Knowing neon nights<br>Missing all the stars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men<br>Drifting through the town<br>Drinking up the night<br>Trying not to drown</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men<br>Singing in the cold<br>Trying to forget<br>That they're growing old</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men<br>Choking on their youth<br>Trying to be brave<br>Running from the truth</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Autumn turns the leaves to gold<br>Slowly dies the heart<br>Sad young men are growing old<br>That's the cruelest part</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men<br>Seek a certain smile<br>Someone they can hold<br>For a little while</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tired little bird, <br>She does the best she can<br>Trying to be gay for her<br>sad young man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the grimy moon<br>Blossoms up above<br>All the sad young men<br>Play at making love</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Misbegotten moon<br>Shine for sad young men<br>Let your gentle light<br>Guide them home again</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All the sad young men</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>***In China homosexuality was referred to as 'the cut sleeve'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Read an excellent account of this in</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Passions of the Cut Sleeve, The Male Homosexual Tradition in China.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> http: //www.ucpress.edu/book.php? isbn=9780520078697</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> ****Surrealistic Sutures For The Acetylene Virgin by Warren Falcon</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> 'I think that poetry should stay awake all night drinking in dark cellars.' - Thomas Merton</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Look to the body for metaphor</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br>Look to blood, use this word<br>in relation to dreams or flowers<br>while silver runs in veins which<br>are usually streets or vines.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breasts, male and female, <br>are stars, have to do with<br>a handful or feet to span them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abdomen, then, is a great<br>Milky Way gathering, <br>holding, expelling comets, <br>caroling colons' humming.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spleens are bones to<br>pick teeth with, teeth<br>which are, of course, <br>sea horses or gravestones<br>bearing images of the Flagrant<br>Heart to tame this spot of<br>gypsum and flint, to charm<br>where Violin's cut throat<br>sings itself awake, one<br>black breast out of its fold<br>slapping metal seas against<br>dropping metal shores in<br>Sidelight's shadow across<br>this hand writing now, <br>slap of waves mute in<br>this stillness of knees.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So lend a darkness to gardens, <br>ancient pattern of a breast, <br>cloth lightly lifting, black on black.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From Her chest reveal a slenderer throat<br>that nods when she swallows<br>and names her peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The delicate will not pass away just yet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Great Seamstress of Space</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sew, please, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with fingers of dew.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535638" data-title="Of Ancient Mastodon, Sleepy Bee & Young Men Who Leap Too Soon From Bridges - Nightingale Confesses Into Straighter Teeth" data-description="'...descend, and of the curveship lend a myth to God.' - Hart Crane Pueri aeterna, septem cadens Etiam plures ad The boys eternal, seven falling Too many more to come Jamey Rodemayer Tyler Clementi Raymond Chase Asher Brown Billy Lucas Seth W..."></div> </div> </div>

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