Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Oratory



Today is displayed as a scene of a crime, each household 
Had its own version--go straight ahead down this street, 
Recessed between odd-count salt cellars and an oyster plate
Recipes of refugees, rendered one afternoon where we risked it.
Where, in the habit of a landscape painter, such aims to comfort,
By establishing a moonscape that leavened as you left, Eurydice


Where the paper is, begins to slide out. Curbside, she runs. Eurydice

The deepest failings of the race. Your ghostly picture of the household 
Rebels in thought, and the jar of the waning November moon comforts
As it empties, through dense green cover of your window facing the street.
So we lived within the thunderheads and dried into a salt flower, a risk  
So far from climbing. Not one peak. Hollowness stares up from the plate.


Imagine it beloved, through a fly-specked pane. A repast on unmatched plates   
An alternative to parting is dismembering it all the wrong way, forcing Eurydice
To figure that anyone finagled her fate, her anger a nest of snakes is risking
An inquisitive look





3 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

Thank you, for reminding me. I am trying not to be depressed with things piling up on my lists.

Σφιγξ said...

Yes, I suppose I do cultivate a private area of worship due to circumstances. I get too late out of work on Friday to light candles. I performed the mitzvah today of ordering the Concrete Jungle 28-inch pizza with mushrooms, ricotta and red peppers for all my work family and consultants. No one turned down a New York slice.

Σφιγξ said...

I am working toward having Friday evenings free.