Poetry Bryan Merck — 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.)Â
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.
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