Archive for September, 2011

September 21, 2011

Day of peas

by jhon baker

shine on motherfuckers, shine on.

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September 20, 2011

NC

by jhon baker

Holiday Inn

 

lights steady, turned on

at next doors busy restaurant

making midnight an artificial dawn

 

transients sleeping or trying

back turned while

we, looking out hotel window,

eyes wide

in uncomfortable bed

used by thousands.

 

N.C. 4-30-2011

 

–  Hoc Scripsi

September 17, 2011

thinking of Micael

by jhon baker

– For MC

 

make no monument to this body,

let the rivers and roads winding on maps

and fields flowing into one another

from the birds view of a plane

serve as testament.

 

May there be no wall of remembrance

where people touch hands for famous photographs.

what a landscape of crows couldn’t bring into thought

make no admonition,

no stone effigy.

 

have no moment of whispering

but shout, shout, shout out

your poetry, fill empty halls

and capital domes. dance, alone

or together, naked in halls and alleyways.

ride your full moon lunacy

 

down one way streets and secret passageways.

eclipse your broken lifeline,

draw borders onto subway station walls –

trip to new york, Louisiana, Chicago and LA

rip your clothes off in stage lit drag shows,

 

ride the rays of the sun,

 

– Hoc Scripsi

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September 16, 2011

Written in May last –

by jhon baker

58

 

58°F

too cold to run naked down the street

waving arms and shouting

 

looking now, out the window,

bearded old lover.

glancing past the fallen leaves,

children’s play things

to lovers new, now forgotten

like metamorphosis read in early

collegiate days, studying the

swan and Leda,

before the tempest

searching back over the certain memories

when everyone drowned.

 

or further back to children poetry

in Sunday school where

first crushed on a thirty-year-old

unmarried virgin, venerean fantasies

not understood by the prodigious youth

that still caressed stuffed bears

and elephants with bells in the ear.

 

laying back, falling back

into cushioned chair under

lampshade stained with yellow light,

muted reminder,

long ago

put away like infirm aspirations.

 

– Hoc Scripsi

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