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Wild Horses of Fire | |
In 1966, after an absence of twenty years, I returned to Tbilisi where I had been born in 1924.
The light thru the trees this camera tracks Their faces the trees of their youth say Naked my earth is virtuous the capillary lights The shot tracking their youth thru the trees Light faces a sky their bodies say
They who sing each other’s names
The noise in what wake Blowing rings around gongs
Bloodletting a word Beads in a netting of frank lace. Hands dyed if our fortune For what collections will we weep? What multitudes keepers may be sad," after all. "We were searching
Going by a roadside Transported by rain Going by fire by black What profounder tears were yours
In a courtyard the distant Forgo warmth fire fir down Fallen from the sky we arrive wind Mocked by life floes don't forget
Hiding in our dress of more In our dress of more the white of doves The white unripening of groves nights Gone and ambivalent hiding in our dress
Brighter travel travesty what says you Blindfolded the face escapes this too To tellingly align this too is good Traveling these hills to trade in visions |
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Pictures from Paradise | |
Pictures from Paradise Sharing no space branches for awhile Showers shoots chutes cued by a sun Green beginning for the eyes to begin Your seeing more literal than mine to hold Love letters see letters with love
Cape Codder Or branches cross salt marsh turbulent arch Crossing a turbulence in the photograph ramble With frames always being ready to begin From here preserve these twigs follow us To see cells leap repeat paradise insist
A / Pastoral Of corrugated bark or bark like chocolate Paths we will eventually agree to wilder We find eyes whereof a technology’s so thin Winding little lines winds shadowy directions Each cell a long shot leaping sequentially as |
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__________ Thom Donovan lives in Manhattan and curates the weblog Wild Horses of Fire and the events series Peace On A. His books include Tears are These Veils (w/ Abby Walton; Wild Horses of Fire Press, 2004) and Mantle (w/ Kyle Schlesinger; Atticus / Finch Press, 2005). Recent work has appeared in 2nd Avenue Poetry, flim forum, P-Queue, The Fanzine, and Readings Between A and B. Work is forthcoming with Crayon, Cuneiform Press, O Books' War & Poetry vol. 3, EOAGH, Jacket, and Gam. He is also a PhD candidate in English at SUNY-Buffalo and likes to study comparative angelology in his spare time. |