Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Poem from the vaults, newly rotating






catapult me into infinity watching
snakes slither to tell of the apple to
the first humans get the code, break
the code, make the code breathe
fresh air atmosphere of quickly 
scooting taxis and transport vessels
as i stay firmly planet rooted in
soil winds ask dancers to come with
them, they dance in my eyes like
fireflies twinkle and dust from a 
meteor sprinkles down on my 
shoulders, holders of scrolls keep 
them under their tongues and flicks
of lava start to warm the center 
of the universe, perfected structures
lay in their right places, like
playground equipment with childhood
memories playing on the monkey bars
and balancing on beams with fresh 
grass cut and the smell of it and
dirt mixed with sweat on hands
and i realize shelter does not have
to be a physical location, although
physical locations help too, but this
is a place of awake resting where
monks hover with me above the 
clouds bestowed with jewels of rainbow
reflections and lectures end and
schools out and i feel my pig 
in shit happy snout, God, whoever 
you are, forgive me for my profanities
they just seem to help me like handles
help me forgive myself for the pure
full enjoyment of my physical form, it
feels like food and now i know it's 
good and i don't want to go back,
but back and forth are ends of
a stretched out sircle, pulled
like a rubberband and man i want 
to stretch this out and be not
just caught by my fears and my
voice, but pushed on to new 
eras, new horizons, new sunset skies
clouds burning beautifully and taking
my outside in and my insides out
gets good blood flowing fresh and
new and i hope i never stop going 
and growing and standing up to
wake my legs up and give 
myself a hand forgiveness is so
simple whenever words run themselves
in sircles or into walls of reason
built over seasons but new seasons
arrive to free men


i spelled circle, "sircle," because i wanted to continue the contemplation of: "back and forth are ends of a stretched out sircle..." get it? okay.
thanks for reading




.Endnote. My good friend Ryan McBee, writer for presentmagazine.com, has been gracious enough to collaborate with me on the "sircle" contemplation. This can be found at his new conceptual/actual blogspace: http://suitcaselegs.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/a-reply-to-romagnitross/

Love and Happiness

2 comments:

Briohny said...

Please record yourself reciting this live and either send it to me or put it up on this blog. Please accept that I am going to ask you to do this at regular intervals until it happens. xo.

Briohny said...

Please see above