Poetry — November 17, 2015 10:56 — 0 Comments

Curiouser and curiouser – Bryan Merck

I am become. I am becoming. I cannot not be outside

of the field. I travel through an inescapable ether. Around and through
my body. The Kingdom of Heaven

supercedes and suffuses fundamentally

the spinning structure of my elements. My conflagration of cells.
My point of being. My now. My life now is as brilliant as a welder’s arc,
an amazing basic moment of contact, joining. I live within it and I help
it maintain.

(Lay your words down, brother. Tell about it. It. Work it out.
Lay down your righteous word. Change reality.
Loose your fate to a Spring wind.
Signify.) 

The boxcar rocks gently, leaving the familiar and
traveling somewhere in a common dream. (We saw
his star in the East.)Constancy. Power. And I cannot not occur
in this rumbling vehicle, asleep, without a clue
of where I am surely going.

Bio:

Bryan Merck has published in America, Eunoia Review, Kentucky Review, Pleiades and others. He is a past winner of the Southern Literary Festival Poetry Prize and the Barkesdale-Maynard Fiction and Poetry Prizes. He lives in south Georgia with his wife Janice.

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What am I?

Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies

Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;

Scientists can't find me.

Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—

Remind me:

The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…

Tick, Tock: Divine me.

-- Richard Kenney