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Ernie Cordell's blog: "Verse"

created on 12/11/2007  |  http://fubar.com/verse/b166713

Double Poster

Double Poster

I'm calling this a "double-poster" probably as a once-subconscious allusion to the 'Dennison' neckbrace that I wore, but also because I'm going to post two poems from what I've just decided is my sucking period. In the midst of a conversation with my friend Mel, I flashed on a couple of concepts anchored to "mayonnaise jar" and "partners in crime." I thought it was a single poem, but it was two poems probably centered on a park somewhere in Washington, DC (shortly before I died? Too much to explain) Nine days later I wrote another poem that deserves a separate post: It stuns me and should speak to someone.

Illuminated Chimney-Hopper

Bug light Circumspection In a mayonnaise jar Eating at castle walls On Harpies' toes And scraping at bits of gut From the sides of an irritated Psyche Hanging in a basket In the marketplace Conversing with idols About Union Rules. Forest Fire Glimmering In stolen truths Consuming locked chambers On tongues of flame And licking love letters From the cherry red desk Blowing them to the stars In an ash balloon Touching the nerves Of the donated pools.

Easter 1980

Sunlight on the bright torches Of the fleur-de-lis nobility In the first flowers rising To touch the lapping rosiness Of the cherry-blossom explosion Over a park fountain, An old man in the midst of Public drinking fountains Irreverently imbibes in the Water from a concrete pool Full of dried leaves. A blue sky bleaches the consciousness Free from the scarlet lady And her bowling-bag investment As she stares in dissatisfaction At her maple-tea partner In moral crime. -- E. Cordell Washington, DC 6 April 1980 After a constitutional in the area of George Washington University.
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