a poem redacted, preface – JB
startled by impact
cumulative
a hunger for youth
he was fifty
J had seemed much older
as though
absorbed and consumed
in the very intensity
of his memory.
a matter of life
and death.
his ambition propelled
a
striking photograph in Life magazine
it would be eleven years.
his amours
turmoil
consumption of alcohol
alchemized
to represent the agon
essential attributes
syntax
tone
diction
cadenzas on carefully
tuned strings
allusion
meter
primal manifestations
to be difficult, “obscure”
obscene.
a besetting consideration
narrative accounts
or
the world seen through inebriation
dreams
a disjointed film
shapes
presences
identities
sometimes in mid sentence
often presumption
singular
voice and vision
effeminate
intimated, elusive
wild,
unbearably beautiful.
– Hoc Scripsi
and what the hell – here is another on the same subject…
October 25th
October 25th
and we celebrate the birth
of John Berryman.
heavy with the burden
of his smashed skull
and dream songs.
his final entry a comment
on the Washington Avenue bridge
in Minneapolis Minnesota.
– Hoc Scripsi
the platitudes of willful resemblance 