Tuesday, September 11, 2007

kearns’ new poem: river beast

i roll into

monday brightness

feetseeking earth

a sundayless

listener

waiting to wake

(medicating for non-heaval

sun-burnishing the pain)


i hear

the riverroadcall

deep humm’d

feel the pull of my

wet-trailing

blue-shoe-sailing

one-at-a-time

soles-don’t-fail-me

pre-steps practiced

dreamed & planned to

imaginary imperfection

traipsed to my

inner port & back

in unanticipation &

urgency & certain-seem’d

sureity about returnity

(shots & prepills &

ointments & more pre)


river song

river call

river might

river thrall

river beat

river on fire

shivering heat

risen like a dawn wind

from gilded waves

as they burn

aroused now

my river beast

sallies the day

battling forty thousand

fathoms of mud

heart first

---rk

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