Ciardi

For Ciardi
2-7-18

In a friend that sticks closer than a brother
I can see a whole lot more now that I've gone there
Between the pages of signs and miracles
Go, swift messengers and go, Eagles
God bless brother Wayne and no more sharp pain
Taking up Ciardi reaching the eighths circle of friends
And the ninth of Cocytus in other ways to go about it
City for city let them tell you now whether you might stand
Where a violin is in tune
With our grand piano in bloody waters
To recall its beauty.....




Go, Those Of Smooth Skin
2-7-18

As to simplify my study space in sovereignty
I suddenly sense there is nothing to fear
Not even exoskelletons
Not even Dante's Inferno
As what is to be must be
Where language too is an instrument
Words to build or destroy
Cups refilled and pens to employ
For Egypt's decline and collapse
As to propose in hopes for safety in the neighborhood
Reaching out to a community of wonders
Behold the Lord rises on a swift cloud
Seal it with your Word
Go, swift messengers and go Eagles.....






Needn't
2-8-18

Needn't needle ingredient breathe dangerous things
Sometimes I wish I had wings where four out of five isn't bad
At all abiding in God and reaching the breach
As one apt to teach
Woe to Ethiopia O that leech
As pleasant plants the peasant supplants
Turning it over to Psalm twenty-four
Hoping that no one shows up at my door
Needle needn't back in the days when we were still beautiful....






For Alighieri
2-8-18

False to the nature of me but more thus
To the fashion of poetry
Lime and limpid green today
I don't need to make the scene
Fortunate and more than just in such a bang for my buck
Shadowed with buzzing wings
The harvest will be a heap of ruins
Whose wings thy rivers divide
All for Alighieri six dollars in the United States
And seven and a half in Canada
Go to see to the kingdom of Edom
From Kadesh starting fresh
O, scarlet hark with golden eyes
May there be no more lies....