tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41044230265911382372024-03-13T16:43:33.274-04:00DAN GOOREVITCHpoetry columnsDan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-19621277493869606022008-03-15T15:09:00.001-04:002014-12-21T21:31:32.282-05:00untitled pyramidic poem<div align="center">
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Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-37830245181786979402007-04-16T13:33:00.006-04:002021-07-21T09:32:27.966-04:00Open The Box<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br /></b></span></span><b style="font-family: "courier new", courier, monospace; font-size: 180%; text-align: left;">In your hall</b></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br /><br />wrapped cool<br /><br /><br />in black fur<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />a first home<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />this warming<br /><br /><br />mother scent<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />you remember<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Soft embrace<br /><br />in a nightly<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear desired<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />I have asked<br /><br /><br />patiently to<br /><br /><br /><br />speak to you<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />but you have<br /><br /><br />not answered<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Goddess then<br /><br /><br /><br />A frost just<br /><br /><br />asked when a<br /><br /><br />lady walking<br /><br /><br /><br />warm wrapped<br /><br />in black fur<br /><br /><br />passed again<br /><br />by this wall<br /><br /><br />arresting an<br /><br />overfull man<br /><br /><br /><br />rounding the<br /><br />corner by an<br /><br />archway over<br /><br />a flower bed<br /><br /><br /><br />where a path<br /><br /><br /><br />laid by some<br /><br />gardener who<br /><br /><br /><br />was tendered<br />as he tended<br /><br />to passion's<br /><br />moving thing<br /><br /><br /><br />Proving thin<br /><br />can grow fat<br /><br /><br />where joy in<br /><br />labour joins<br /><br /><br />method to an<br /><br />intent as it<br /><br />leads to the<br /><br />order sought<br /><br /><br />conscious or<br />not. Does it<br /><br />much matter?<br /><br /><br /><br />Egg or bird?<br /><br /><br /><br />The thing or<br />the thought?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Home is what<br /><br />we whispered<br /><br /><br />as we lay by<br /><br />warm hearths<br /><br /><br /><br />where gentle<br /><br />speaking was<br /><br /><br /><br />the order of<br /><br />the air with<br /><br />which breath<br /><br />passed forth<br /><br /><br /><br />returning to<br /><br />our enriched<br /><br />hearts where<br /><br /><br /><br />our loss was<br /><br /><br /><br />gladly, that<br /><br /><br /><br />one unwanted<br /><br />thing itself<br /><br /><br /><br />we'd yearned<br /><br />to be rid of<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Overfull man<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />rounding the<br /><br />corner by an<br /><br />archway over<br /><br />a flower bed<br /><br /><br /><br />arrested one<br /><br />warm wrapped<br /><br />lady walking<br /><br /><br /><br />and wondered<br /><br /><br /><br />who arrested<br /><br />whom? Flower<br /><br />strewn petal<br /><br />arrangements<br /><br /><br /><br />lay on black<br /><br />narrow berms<br /><br /><br /><br />of earth. In<br /><br />the electric<br /><br /><br />lighted lawn<br /><br />grass strips<br /><br />and loam was<br /><br /><br /><br />in them both<br /><br /><br /><br />one filigree<br /><br />fine pattern<br /><br /><br /><br />which petals<br /><br />concurringly<br /><br />did complete<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Imagination?<br /><br /><br /><br />Projection's<br /><br />perceptions?<br /><br /><br /><br />Structure of<br /><br />reality? and<br /><br /><br /><br />what then? a<br /><br />solution? an<br /><br />answer? plan<br /><br /><br /><br />of assembly?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Instructions<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Reading them<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What a chore<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A walk close<br /><br />to this wall<br /><br /><br /><br />could change<br /><br />our thinking<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Near a white<br /><br />plaster wall<br /><br /><br />full-charged<br /><br />with current<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />an entranced<br /><br />trunk stands<br /><br />balancing on<br /><br />one foot. On<br /><br /><br /><br />the hairs of<br /><br />the arms and<br /><br />throughout a<br /><br />whole inward<br /><br />frame I feel<br /><br /><br /><br />gripped by a<br /><br /><br />gods buzzing<br /><br />bristling of<br /><br />pure force--<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Are we ready<br /><br /><br /><br />for jolting?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Come on then<br /><br /><br /><br />bring 'em on<br /><br /><br /><br />those little<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">extra </span>pieces<br /><br /><br /><br />pierce <span style="font-style: italic;">amour</span><br /><br /><br /><br />full-armored<br /><br /><br /><br />rattling all<br /><br />organs which<br /><br /><br /><br />you threw in<br /><br />furtively of<br /><br /><br />an afternoon<br /><br /><br /><br />but searched<br /><br />to construct<br /><br /><br /><br />in day again<br /><br /><br /><br />after nights<br /><br /><br /><br />vain, hoping<br /><br /><br /><br />that when at<br /><br />midnight, at<br /><br /><br /><br />its stroking<br /><br /><br /><br />these pieces<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">extra </span>pieces<br /><br /><br /><br />may assemble<br /><br />themselves a<br /><br /><br /><br />fit model--a<br /><br /><br /><br />flying thing<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />For all toys<br /><br /><br /><br />and even joy<br /><br /><br /><br />seem in this<br /><br />mortal realm<br /><br />to just rust<br /><br /><br /><br />dust, as did<br /><br />flying's son<br /><br />when the boy<br /><br />fell aground<br /><br /><br /><br />while called<br /><br />forth from a<br /><br />dream to fly<br /><br /><br /><br />an action to<br /><br />which intent<br /><br /><br /><br />grave itself<br /><br /><br /><br />must lead us<br /><br />to a testing<br /><br />toying model<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sighing sign<br /><br /><br /><br />singing by a<br /><br /><br /><br />soaring wing<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The open box<br /><br /><br /><br />hollowed out<br /><br />to fit these<br /><br />photographic<br /><br /><br /><br />images, long<br /><br />cherished in<br /><br />lonely dusks<br /><br /><br /><br />where violin<br /><br /><br /><br />music called<br /><br />from strings<br /><br /><br /><br />recalled the<br /><br />deep springs<br /><br /><br /><br />from which a<br /><br />memory draws<br /><br /><br /><br />this antique<br /><br />plastic wing<br /><br />back to hand<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Vision, will<br /><br />and patience<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Your resolve<br /><br />to fashion a<br /><br /><br /><br />remembrance:<br /><br /><br /><br />an aeroplane<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />2<br /><br />Open the box<br /><br />one birthday<br /><br />and you will<br /><br />find there a<br /><br />swirling ice<br /><br />cream freeze<br /><br /><br /><br />beautiful an<br /><br />image beheld<br /><br />as it begins<br /><br />to melt into<br /><br />an icy glaze<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Last night's<br /><br />kiss, caress<br /><br /><br />at cock crow<br /><br />flew, though<br /><br />every pore's<br /><br />mouth sang a<br /><br />song its ear<br /><br /><br /><br />perfect knew<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />It seems sad<br /><br />perhaps it's<br /><br />natural that<br /><br /><br /><br />our rise and<br /><br />shine to the<br /><br />world's work<br /><br /><br />should spell<br /><br />an exit from<br /><br />Eden's realm<br /><br /><br /><br />where a wall<br /><br /><br /><br />broken piece<br /><br />by piece was<br /><br /><br /><br />dissolved in<br /><br />our electric<br /><br />charge as it<br /><br />wrought that<br /><br /><br /><br />flesh change<br /><br />exchange and<br /><br /><br /><br />which ending<br /><br /><br /><br />was replaced<br /><br />by a need to<br /><br /><br /><br />open the box<br /><br /><br /><br />in the world<br /><br /><br />and organize<br /><br />these pieces<br /><br /><br /><br />12 character<br /><br />per verse--a<br /><br />little flute<br /><br /><br /><br />trembling in<br /><br />the throat a<br /><br /><br /><br />chord played<br /><br />from a bough<br /><br /><br /><br />bowed from a<br /><br />bellied bole<br /><br /><br /><br />aimed upshot<br /><br />to His cloud<br /><br /><br /><br />from where a<br /><br />golden misty<br /><br />rain fell up<br /><br /><br /><br />from a heart<br /><br /><br /><br />the leaf let<br /><br />fall up from<br /><br />a mouth. Old<br /><br /><br /><br />newspaper on<br /><br />the pavement<br /><br /><br /><br />twisting and<br /><br /><br /><br />a paper bird<br /><br /><br /><br />winding rose<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Up! Up! came<br /><br />calling when<br /><br />man was then<br /><br />youth and an<br /><br />airplane sky<br /><br />bloomed blue<br /><br />and rose new<br /><br />within him a<br /><br />sighing song<br /><br />you remember<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />See? it fits<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Youth in age<br /><br />Age in youth<br /><br /><br /><br />Lovers lying<br /><br />loving truth<br /><br /><br /><br />Man with God<br /><br />Songs within<br /><br /><br /><br />Seed in womb<br /><br />we all begin<br /><br /><br /><br />Babe in arms<br /><br />Arms embrace<br /><br /><br /><br />All one Soul<br /><br />face to face<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Goddess then<br /><br /><br /><br />who taught a<br /><br />bough-broken<br /><br />baby's swing<br /><br />support when<br /><br />cut could be<br /><br />an ell stick<br /><br /><br /><br />Hollowed out<br /><br /><br /><br />the template<br /><br />being you--a<br /><br />little flute<br /><br /><br /><br />Also the apt<br /><br />divining rod<br /><br />be fashioned<br /><br /><br /><br />attracting a<br /><br />water-wooden<br /><br />source to it<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />One daughter<br /><br />then you are<br /><br /><br /><br />as childless<br /><br /><br /><br />the pregnant<br /><br />messenger to<br /><br />deliver seed<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />To childless<br /><br />men you tell<br /><br />such arts as<br /><br />men may need<br /><br />to till them<br /><br /><br /><br />all men as a<br /><br />crop to soar<br /><br /><br /><br />into blood's<br /><br />fertile core<br /><br /><br /><br />so that in a<br /><br />drear moment<br /><br /><br /><br />a word would<br /><br />chime as the<br /><br />phrase least<br /><br />remembered--<br /><br /><br /><br />Note next to<br /><br />one unheeded<br /><br /><br /><br />the one lost<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Goodbye then<br /><br /><br /><br />Simple words<br /><br />remembered--<br /><br /><br /><br />Goodbye kiss<br /><br /><br /><br />The deed our<br /><br />intention to<br /><br /><br /><br />return to us<br /><br /><br /><br />from I and I<br /><br /><br /><br />the pleasure<br /><br /><br /><br />as you liked<br /><br />to say--that<br /><br /><br /><br />anticipation<br /><br /><br /><br />of cherished<br /><br />moments I am<br /><br />slow to know<br /><br /><br /><br />as your mind<br /><br />all mornings<br /><br /><br /><br />a hot coffee<br /><br />cup unbrewed<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />You are best<br /><br /><br /><br />latest, long<br /><br />day followed<br /><br />in whistling<br /><br />conversation<br /><br /><br /><br />as I've seen<br /><br />you there at<br /><br />fence picket<br /><br />by bird cage<br /><br /><br /><br />a sound come<br /><br />from between<br /><br />your teeth--<br /><br /><br /><br />chirping, in<br /><br />a sweet tone<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />You stood up<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />rose tip toe<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />to sew songs<br /><br />to the wings<br /><br />of songbirds<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />What then is<br /><br />our rankling<br /><br />reticence--a<br /><br />wrangling in<br /><br />defence that<br /><br />marries with<br /><br />an ill habit<br /><br />of regret, O<br /><br />solitude out<br /><br />of which the<br /><br />soul seeks a<br /><br />door--desire<br /><br />the thin key<br /><br />to unlock it<br /><br /><br /><br />Desperate of<br /><br />acts! You're<br /><br />spore; blown<br /><br />alone a leaf<br /><br />in the drift<br /><br />where vacuum<br /><br />sucks, hurls<br /><br />spiralling a<br /><br />spar-stem in<br /><br />gusts toward<br /><br />an avoidance<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />A bitterness<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The taste an<br /><br />unlikely one<br /><br />to better us<br /><br /><br /><br />marring what<br /><br />beauty, sent<br /><br />to us from a<br /><br />red hot Mars<br /><br /><br /><br />and O, Venus<br /><br /><br /><br />a warming of<br /><br />breath's lip<br /><br />slid-slipped<br /><br />breast's tip<br /><br />across chest<br /><br /><br /><br />glided crush<br /><br />dust, O dust<br /><br />without love<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The gas tank<br /><br />an affection<br /><br />machine near<br /><br />empty desert<br /><br />sands scrape<br /><br />a bared soul<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Two hands at<br /><br />a waist belt<br /><br />buckle flash<br /><br />trapped dark<br /><br />excitement a<br /><br />disgust with<br /><br />horror mixed<br /><br />and pleasure<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />So she stood<br /><br />next morning<br /><br />at the glass<br /><br /><br /><br />an old dress<br /><br />hanging from<br /><br />a rusty wire<br /><br /><br /><br />The holes of<br /><br />her bathrobe<br /><br />a spider web<br /><br /><br /><br />masking such<br /><br />odd exulting<br /><br />secret power<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Betrayed, he<br /><br />you betrayed<br /><br /><br /><br />trusting not<br /><br />this passion<br /><br />fleeing from<br /><br />fleet Apollo<br /><br /><br /><br />following at<br /><br />flight speed<br /><br /><br /><br />clumsily, in<br /><br />song's ardor<br /><br /><br /><br />And your ear<br /><br />a split limb<br /><br /><br /><br />concealed in<br /><br />a dark arbor<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Praying thus<br /><br />for a kindly<br /><br />father's aid<br /><br /><br /><br />a frightened<br /><br />quaking form<br /><br />clung rooted<br /><br /><br /><br />forever cast<br /><br />as the waxen<br /><br />green laurel<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Here our way<br /><br />forks from a<br /><br />forest floor<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Whitest this<br /><br /><br /><br />a lily grows<br /><br />under acorns<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Needles fall<br /><br />from spruces<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Cone at pine<br /><br /><br /><br />tip branched<br /><br /><br /><br />here topples<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Seeks a soil<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sends a root<br /><br /><br /><br />shoot to sky<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />branching in<br /><br />one filigree<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />air and tree<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Scantling in<br /><br />half-light--<br /><br /><br /><br />border light<br /><br /><br /><br />separateness<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Sweetness us<br /><br /><br /><br />the lips are<br /><br />still tingle<br /><br /><br /><br />tart and the<br /><br /><br /><br />fingertip to<br /><br />fingertip to<br /><br />squeeze; the<br /><br />ten fingered<br /><br /><br /><br />temple built<br /><br /><br /><br />of two hands<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Up above the<br /><br />wood rafters<br /><br /><br /><br />The two beer<br /><br />on the table<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Tingling lip<br /><br /><br /><br />still ghosts<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />With them we<br /><br /><br /><br />will play to</b></span></span><br />
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Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-26329453519620563642007-04-10T14:12:00.000-04:002007-04-10T11:56:39.985-04:00The World Is<div align="center"><span style="font-family:courier new;font-size:180%;"><br /><br /><strong>The world is<br /><br />in spite its<br /><br /><br /><br />seeming size<br /><br />just a mural<br /><br /><br /><br />and its wall<br /><br />the mind, is<br /><br /><br /><br />its mountain<br /><br />to scale. If<br /><br /><br /><br />she said, we<br /><br />have courage<br /><br /><br /><br />then come up<br /><br />dear, ascend<br /><br /><br /></strong></span><br /></div>Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-23446986459249285712007-04-08T23:51:00.000-04:002014-12-21T21:33:08.071-05:00Caterpillar Boy<div align="center">
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font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Olive groves</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">in abundance</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the orchards</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">fig and plum</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Meat, fleece</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of the lambs</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Hecatombs of</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">fatted boars</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">A black bull</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">for the gods</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Pyres raised</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">to the ether</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Lush forests</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">yield timber</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">my shipyards</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">all business</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Dawn to dusk</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">my potteries</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the painters</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">well-trained</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Black beasts</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">wrestle with</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Heracles, in</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">red outlines</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">And my ships</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">bearing gold</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">to pay hands</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">--all skills</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">The guilds a</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">philanthropy</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">by every man</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">who advances</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the pregnant</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">contour, hue</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the craft of</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">his ancestor</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">And I savour</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">rich texture</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of both clay</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and tapestry</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Spice of the</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">foreign land</b><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 28.8px;"><b>Cardamom </b></span><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">for</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">a full table</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Exotic cloth</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">for the wife</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Peace--in an</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">orderly life</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">And my slave</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">is well-paid</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">his work not</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">too exacting</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">mind or body</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">not punished</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">if compliant</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">with the law</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">In every way</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">I am liberal</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and civility</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">is my temper</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">And twilight</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">brings larks</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">to my garden</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and vineyard</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">My forsythia</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">fresh yellow</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Lilacs bloom</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">by the roses</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Clematis and</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">ivy climb up</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">green crotch</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of the trees</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">My starlings</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">flit & flirt</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">coquettes to</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">my eye, sore</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">bent over my</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">many ledgers</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Line by line</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the dull ink</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">this concern</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and that one</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Deluge after</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">drought, yet</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">My daughters</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">in fine wool</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">my sons hale</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and handsome</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">The children</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of my babies</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the clenched</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">little fists</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">red-faced in</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">ornate tears</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">laughing are</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">pure delight</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">These are my</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">soil, my air</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">root, branch</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">shoot, bloom</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">quick growth</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of my summer</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">wool blanket</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">to my winter</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">The arteries</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of my health</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and the pump</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">of my wealth</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">These hew my</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">soul's shape</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">No ink shows</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">it in tables</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">yet an order</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">built up and</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">in every way</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">sustained by</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the tower of</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">counted coin</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">the wheat of</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">my granaries</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">•</b><br /><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Float, float</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">up to heaven</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Midas's pure</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">sprung psalm</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">Holy Olympus</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">on its mount</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">down-clouded</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">azure, white</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">but its gods</b><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">heard "gold"</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">and "me" and</b><br /><br /><b style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: 180%;">nothing else</b></span><br />
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Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-46942807023408409092007-04-08T15:42:00.000-04:002014-12-21T21:33:45.007-05:00Little Mommy<span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 180%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 180%;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">LITTLE MOMMY<br /><br />"Do you have<br />a baby", she<br />asks me, "in<br />your belly?"<br /><br />"No", I say,<br />"Do you?" An<br />answer given<br />as surely as<br /><br />swiftly. "Is<br />it a girl or<br />a boy?" pose<br />I, to which:<br /><br />"Her name is<br />Jane;--see?"<br />she says, as<br />she shows me<br /><br />a wee crease<br />in her navel<br />"Can you see<br />Jane's bum?"</span><b><br /><br /><br /></b></b></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-81069670815708248972007-04-08T15:33:00.000-04:002014-12-21T21:33:56.158-05:00ART/FOR/ITS/OWN/END<div align="center">
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Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-24370580904638583292007-04-01T20:50:00.000-04:002014-12-21T21:35:13.941-05:0019841994<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;"><b><br /><br />I<br />me<br />we<br />us<br />Ms<br />bi<br />PhD<br />gay<br />CIA<br />FBI<br />men<br />Her<br />She<br />hiV<br />s/he<br />blak<br />CSIS<br />nazi<br />AIDS<br />race<br />junta<br />queer<br />greed<br />dogma<br />class<br />canon<br />racist<br />fatist<br />wimmin<br />queens<br />gender<br />agenda<br />smoker<br />victim<br />fascist<br />lesbian<br />bulimic<br />context<br />studies<br />new-age<br />subtext<br />demonize<br />freudian<br />red meat<br />wellness<br />heteroxy<br />anorexic<br />paradigm<br />didactic<br />bisexual<br />feminist<br />herstory<br />same-sex<br />safe-sex<br />misogyny<br />workshop<br />polemics<br />patronize<br />safer-sex<br />pride day<br />date-rape<br />aggressor<br />he or she<br />semiotics<br />subverted<br />she or he<br />empowered<br />genocidal<br />caregiver<br />privilege<br />vegetarian<br 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privileged<br />women's issues<br />sexual assault<br />animal testing<br />multinationals<br />age-appropriate<br />Judeo-Christian<br />animal products<br />the male agenda<br />socio/political<br />substance abuse<br />cultural worker<br />fundamentalists<br />the power elite<br />status of women<br />corporate greed<br />women's studies<br />new-age medicine<br />the revisionists<br />the inner cities<br />abortion clinics<br />power structures<br />dead white males<br />private property<br />the profit motive<br />same-sex benefits<br />employment equity<br />sexual harassment<br />deconstructionist<br />second-hand smoke<br />corporate America<br />greedy businessmen<br />gender stereotypes<br />endangered species<br />the black majority<br />the white majority<br />the black minority<br />the white minority<br />holistic medicines<br />indoor air quality<br />affirmative action<br />spiritual identity<br />the new world order<br />human rights groups<br />non-western culture<br />conservation issues<br />the disenfranchised<br />mentally challenged<br />performance artists<br />renewable resources<br />the military regime<br />the tobacco industry<br />eurocentric thinking<br />high-risk activities<br />the corporate agenda<br />unsubstantiated fact<br />advocacy advertising<br />new-age philosophies<br />homeopathic medicine<br />has been discredited<br />wheel-chair athletes<br />animal rights groups<br />deeply coded message<br />conceptually invalid<br />politically incorrect<br />alternative sexuality<br />self-representational<br />autobiographical text<br />old-guard politicians<br />high-minded principle<br />refreshing scepticism<br />violence against women<br />gender differentiation<br />the cosmetics industry<br />heterosexual orthodoxy<br />animal experimentation<br />negotiating difference<br />iconically interesting<br />cultural appropriation<br />the difference disabled<br />gay & lesbian bookstore<br />gender-neutral language<br />women's study programme<br />the white establishment<br />substance abuse problem<br />the wilderness committee<br />age-appropriate behavior<br />reproductive technologies<br />institutional co-optation<br />the politics of inclusion<br />the politics of exclusion<br />Christian fundamentalists<br />water conservation issues<br />male spousal abuse studies<br />the crassest commercialism<br />gender-neutral terminology<br />human rights infringements<br />energy consumption & waste<br />green community designation<br />fresh fruits and vegetables<br />the ruling military leaders<br />the market-driven economies<br />military/industrial complex<br />cross-cultural fertilization<br />the post-colonial experience<br />buddies in bad times theatre<br />the violence of monocultures<br />shifting multiple identities<br />multiple elective identities<br />mutually-assured destruction<br />politically-correct language<br />environment education officer<br />department of women's studies<br />privileged institutional hand<br />French structuralist critique<br />trademark cosmetic indicators <br />present-day political concerns<br />free-standing abortion clinics<br />the marginalized nexus of power<br />reticent to negotiate difference<br />art-historical deconstructionist<br />post-modernist art & architecture<br />self-declared military government<br />the multinational corporate agenda<br />the multinational corporate empire<br />French post-Structuralist critique<br />CONSUMERS of MENTAL HEALTH PRODUCTS<br /><br />© nineteen-ninety-four dan goorevitch</b></span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-8892117016457372202007-02-27T16:11:00.000-05:002014-12-21T21:34:22.548-05:00Circumferent<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">A finger pad<br />pressed soft<br />encompassing<br />a sand grain<br /><br />Swell of the<br />belly and an<br />earth curves<br />away from an<br /><br />arm's hollow<br />a shoulder's<br />bump. Hid by<br />grass blades<br /><br />a valley. To<br />the river in<br />sparkle, dew<br />the new moon<br /><br />O, the stars<br />the lips the<br />sun shine on<br />fertile land<br /><br />Circumferent<br />line, in dot<br />and dash our<br />circled life</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-4037986136639509852007-02-25T16:15:00.000-05:002014-12-21T21:35:24.496-05:00Icarus<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">THE BUT<br />AIR THE<br />WAS SEA<br />HIS WAS<br />JOY LOW<br />AND HOT<br />THE WAX<br />MAP WAS<br />FOR HIS<br />THE WOE<br />BOY AND<br />AND HIS<br />HOT SIN<br />SUN WAS<br />WAS HIS<br />HIS OWN<br />AIM WAY</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-34802044108243767902007-02-24T23:53:00.000-05:002014-12-21T21:36:21.661-05:00Medusa<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">HE'S welcome<br />He may enter<br /><br />Let him come<br />into my maze<br /><br />like all men<br />have entered<br /><br />Squirming: a<br />writhing dog<br /><br />encrusted in<br />primal slime<br /><br />leaking down<br />matted limbs<br /><br /> ∙<br /><br />Let him come<br />to my cavern<br /><br />Let him come<br />to admire me<br /><br />I have curls<br />to show him!<br /><br />Lovely curls<br />so beautiful<br /><br />So beautiful<br />they stiffen<br /><br />not cock but<br />a whole body<br /><br /> ∙<br /><br />I understand<br />man's energy<br /><br />His yearning<br />penetrations<br /><br />For him I am<br />ever Elysium<br /><br />His constant<br />loving bride<br /><br />Let him come<br />with a pearl<br /><br />to my diadem<br />of warm eggs<br /><br /> ∙<br /><br />I am waiting<br />for caresses<br /><br />The hands of<br />his bold eye<br /><br />on my breast<br />and my thigh<br /><br />Ready to see<br />his erection<br /><br />Hero Perseus<br />bred of Zeus<br /><br />and of gold-<br />plated Danae<br /><br /> ∙<br /><br />He can be as<br />the Gods are<br /><br />He can be an<br />Immortal One<br /><br />He can be as<br />the spouting<br /><br />stuff of his<br />proud pecker<br /><br />Protean! Yet<br />lost forever<br /><br />In the crack<br />of my cranny</span><span style="font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"> . . .<br /><br />&copy Dan Goorevitch</span></span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-17173319100664656372007-02-24T23:49:00.002-05:002014-12-21T21:36:37.427-05:00Perseus<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">HERE I stand</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">paralysed by</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">putrifaction</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">Everywhere's</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">this twisted</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">bowel, brain</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">quarry, prey</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">death-locked</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and standing</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">in the teeth</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of the stink</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I take stock</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Father, Zeus</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">Danae, nurse</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I am Perseus</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I'm the bolt</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">who revolved</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and resolved</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">himself born</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the very nut</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">wound 'round</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">silver strut</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">snake sprung</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">from the gut</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">The past now</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the prophesy</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">my office is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to break the</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">outer clutch</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of the shell</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">that cuts an</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">exposed foot</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">in search of</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a pure pearl</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">chained fast</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to the stone</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">So bright is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">her sky that</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">tiny strokes</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a paintbrush</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">plied on the</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">snowy canvas</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">lay a yellow</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">halo of hair</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">upon leg and</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the underlip</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">Amber fibres</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">coil by coil</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">So that that</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">copper flame</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">framed round</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the darkling</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">lip of bliss</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and its bung</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">line by line</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">in that dawn</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">each exactly</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the arrested</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">precision of</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">new daylight</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Rosy fingers</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of the bards</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I've seen as</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">in our lodge</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">nipples rose</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to sun-shaft</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">closing each</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">fierce wound</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of this root</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of humankind</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">throbbing in</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a lonely bed</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">And I kissed</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">those pearls</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">that strayed</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">from spittle</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">And my mouth</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">sliding down</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">pulled sweet</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">at the lilac</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">as her mouth</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">caught at me</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">hot and cool</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and she said</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">The world is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">in spite its</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">seeming size</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">just a mural</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and its wall</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the mind, is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">its mountain</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to scale. If</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">she said, we</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">have courage</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">then come up</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">dear, ascend</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">My reverie's</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">an absurdity</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a fat finger</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">clutching at</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and prodding</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">til the taut</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">string limps</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">No fine line</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">image-strung</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">can aid, but</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">nth-drawn, a</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">wound-up gut</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Her coven is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the covet of</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">connoisseurs</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a gallery of</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">ossified men</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I must stare</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">despite fear</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">face-to-face</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">where for me</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the other is</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">a true scale</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">of the world</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">This is that</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">bright aegis</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I will bring</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to the panic</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and at amber</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">shine of eye</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">reflecting a</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">hole of hell</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">all my sword</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and my blood</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">will rise up</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to the chaos</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /><br /><br /></span></span> <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">I, within me</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">revolved and</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">through this</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">I'm resolved</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">As I crawled</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">to the world</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">from my home</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">inside Danae</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">So I will to</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">the Gorgon's</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">and kill the</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">putrid bitch</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 180%;">© Dan Goorevitch</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-52974816779180032242007-02-24T23:32:00.001-05:002014-12-21T21:36:49.891-05:00Prolegomenon to "Perseus," an unfinished work<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">...the snake<br />engulfed its<br />whole length<br /><br />and its jaws<br />expanding to<br />their utmost<br /><br />bore a broad<br />hot river of<br />bright stars<br /><br />The universe<br />inverted and<br />we were born<br /><br /><br />•<br />•<br />•<br /><br /><br />Sliding, the<br />snakes twist<br /><br />glide slowly<br />on and under<br /><br />Ships: blind<br />in dense fog<br /><br />turning over<br />each other's<br /><br />extended gut<br />chest, limbs<br /><br />Massive arms<br />bound as one<br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br />Strained the<br />hip-sheathed<br />straitjacket<br /><br />An energy so<br />concentrated<br />to open; the<br /><br />Tongue's tip<br />on the green<br />apple's skin<br /><br />turns inward<br />...flowering<br />to the flesh<br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br />Bright's the<br />papered bark<br />of the birch<br /><br />Sap of amber<br />running down<br />a white limb<br /><br />Gartersnakes<br />slip through<br />pink fingers<br /><br />Rose tongues<br />coiled round<br />copper flame<br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br />And she rose<br />the dentrite<br />form against<br />the tongue's<br /><br />Thigh's jaws<br />clenching on<br />cheek's bone<br />Crush, grind<br /><br />Gnashing her<br />circles then<br />Hammering on<br />broken teeth<br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br />Branch, twig<br />a camouflage<br /><br />Hidden under<br />wet boulders<br /><br />Outward eyes<br />shut tightly<br /><br />Fork cutting<br />air, stubble<br /><br />In the cross<br />of this path<br /><br />Goddess, god<br />here conjoin<br /><br /><br />•<br /><br /><br />Tiresias saw<br />them twining<br /><br />Parting them<br />with a stick<br /><br />God, Goddess<br />inverted him<br /><br />Male——female<br />Female——male<br /><br />And an inner<br />sight befell<br /><br />experience's<br />black vision<br /><br /><br />•<br />•<br />•<br /><br /><br />...the snake<br />engulfed its<br />whole length<br /><br />And its jaws<br />expanding to<br />their utmost<br /><br />bore in them<br />fingers. The<br />nimble parts<br /><br />to each task<br />——to an Eden<br />we were born<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />© Dan Goorevitch</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-83793093980284263022007-02-24T23:27:00.001-05:002014-12-21T21:37:01.560-05:00Prodigal Son<div align="center">
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">PRODIGAL SON<br /><br />I, returning<br />from flights<br /><br />and railroad<br />compartments<br /><br />Dark tunnels<br /><br />Drawn blinds<br /><br />Making music<br /><br />from nothing<br /><br />——Iron wheel<br /><br />Squealing on<br />a metal rail<br /><br /> •<br /><br />A cloud flew<br /><br />and profound<br />figures grew<br /><br />from nothing<br /><br /> •<br /><br />Returning, I<br /><br />high above a<br />worsted coat<br /><br />Green tinted<br />tar-pit of a<br />Black Forest<br /><br />smoke-plumed<br /><br />As if a huge<br />building had<br />been brought<br />to its knees<br /><br /> •<br />Light——these<br /><br />small points<br /><br /> •<br /><br />Down below's<br /><br />the Tel Aviv<br /><br /><br />Hill of life<br /><br /> •<br /><br />Crash, crash<br />by all means<br /><br /><br />Dead, alive:<br /> •<br /> •<br /> •<br />I've arrived<br /><br /><br /><br />© Dan Goorevitch</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-19167648913269567722007-02-24T23:17:00.002-05:002014-12-21T21:37:15.896-05:00In Isolation<span style="font-family: courier new; font-size: 180%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Talking in a</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">house, alone</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">What will he</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">say and will</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">he answer it</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">as imagined?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Talking in a</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">room, vacant</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Can she look</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">the same way</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">as when last</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">you saw her?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Planning for</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">your success</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">you are king</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">of the world</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">talking to a</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">What answers</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">so important</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">need you now</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">that a ghost</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">only a ghost</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">can provide?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">© Dan Goorevitch</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-49619260772366041032007-02-22T16:17:00.001-05:002014-12-21T21:37:27.745-05:00FIRE DOLL<div align="center">
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">Hate laws<br />hide what<br />lazy dumb<br />talk does<br /><br />Bury Jews<br />Andy bury<br /><br />most deep<br /><br />slow mind<br /><br />Bomb drop<br />doll city<br />same diff<br /><br />talk show<br />Andy says<br /><br />Only look<br /><br />Bomb sent<br />will kill<br />what ever<br />some hate<br /><br />stop bomb<br />come over<br />that very<br />same pond<br /><br />That made<br />life cost<br />most mean<br /><br />that side<br /><br />this side<br /><br />Only just<br />hear this<br /><br />Jews were<br />same side<br /><br />rest note<br />took from<br />fair song<br /><br />With mark<br />mark well<br />with mark<br /><br />note sent<br />from song<br /><br />soul from<br />body took<br /><br />bone took<br />from skin<br /><br />bone bust<br />into dust<br /><br />Call them<br /> doll then<br /><br />bury them<br /><br />Call them<br />then doll<br /><br />only doll<br /><br />Your word<br />from this<br />care bear<br />side your<br />fake face<br /><br />dumb care<br />your left<br />wing mask<br /><br />will make<br />your debt<br />list long<br /><br />Your sons<br />push next<br />sons hard<br /><br />make good<br />that bill<br /><br />Same Nazi<br />work plan<br /><br />Till gold<br />fill from<br />dead open<br />food hole<br /><br />make that<br />then your<br />glad days<br />debt paid<br /><br />Call that<br />your song<br /><br />sick bird<br /><br />Coil into<br />your soil<br /><br />your soul<br />made dirt<br /><br /><br />© Dan Goorevitch</span></span></div>
Dan Goorevitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12299775235564806246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4104423026591138237.post-88133694439321777691998-12-22T17:06:00.000-05:002018-10-02T00:10:13.441-04:00Prayer<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">(<i>after Ernest Bloch's Prayer</i></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;">I</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">If You should come</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Evening or morning</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">If You should come</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Fasting, mourning,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">All alone,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">You'll find me here with You</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">If You should come</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Waking, sleeping,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">that You loaned to my keeping for life</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">You'll find me there with You</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">I love You</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">knowing You gave me</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">everything I could possess, my Lord</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">II</span></div>
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<i style="font-size: 11.5pt;">Lord in Heaven hear</i><span style="font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 11.5pt;">my pray'r</i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 11.5pt;">If You could know, my heart is so</i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">I'm wrapped up in Your embrace </span></i><i style="font-size: 11.5pt;">as a moon's ache</i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 15.3333px;">is wrapped in the sun</i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><i>in</i> <i>the sun... the sun.</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">III</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Flightless wings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">over my head</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Empty space</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">under my bed</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">In the husk of an apple core</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Lying withered on a dusty floor</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Broken wings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Broken teeth</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">rot in my head</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">In the husk of an apple core</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Lying withered on a dusty floor</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">In the gloom of a cellar room</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Lies withered in the gloom</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">It won't be long before I'm with You</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">IV</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">What girl is this?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Modest and slender</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">What is this kiss?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Chaste and tender, she is Love</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><img height="2" width="9" /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">You've brought her here with You</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">This winter's morn</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Cold and sunny</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Suddenly I heard a</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">cry made my heart jump for joy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><img height="2" width="9" /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">My only child is born!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">I love him</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt;"><img height="2" width="9" /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Give me a moment</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.5pt; layout-grid-mode: line;">Before I give him to You, my Lord.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 15.3333px;">© 1996, Dan Goorevitch</span></div>
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