The procession passing by

 

the procession passing by

celebrates the hermaphrodite christ’s erection

the caritas of the lonely angels on the stark street corners

the bitter green gods laughing

enkidu playing go with the norns

under the dream arches of our city’s mighty engines

and the dark dreams of mute charon’s

task without end task without thanks

i will form the mudras of holy anticipation

i will sing the songs the sharks sing

i pull the past and future together

fold them neatly like a napkin

or the enola gay of our histories

imagine that the sky is blue again

when we walked barefoot through forest paths

not hierophants of endless production lines

epigones in the tophets of blank offices

when we were suffering like the blind youths of the parthenon

i tunnel back through the past

through the bells and the blindnesses

tasting windjammers and worms and the risen judas

everything is unfinished

everything is

everything

 

 

 

 

Robert Mapson

 

 

 

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