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Thu Nov-20-08 08:07 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 11/20/2008) |
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Upon Reading in the Newspaper That a Man in Vermont was Arrested for Stealing 1,300 Maps from Libraries Around the World
----For John Wood
Above his head, he feels the air stir like a rustling of huge extinct birds that certainly still exist on some far- off island beneath the calligraphy letters Here There Be Dragons on a map some unremembered prince tacked above his bed more than six hundred years ago. Using the same hand that once caressed the hard, pure thighs of Pentecostal girls, this cartography thief fingers longitudinal lines— umbilical cords—to places whose very names are smoke wisps over the sandbank of his life. Scythes Nomades. Hispaniola. Orbellando. Franklinia. The Tartarian Sea. When the small bud of cancer began to bloom in his chest, he surrendered the idea that Heaven’s where God puts us back together again—who would believe that when there’s an island named Coriolanus where a two-mile cliff spills debris onto a pink sand beach, or a Titan- gouged recess called the Olduvai Gorge where famous Leakeys unearthed prehistoric skulls that looked decidedly reptilian. “I am a function of my blood and muscle,” the crook confessed after being nabbed with a $4,000 celestial map from the golden age of Dutch cartography, the Solis Circa Orbem Terrarum Revolutio, tucked inside his T-shirt where, he hoped, he could feast like a czar on the full alphabet of longing through osmosis, through the stripes and curves of distant overlapping rock, where life is anything but a feathered mystery and every raven’s wing is touched softly with starlight, angel powder.
Ryan G. Van Cleave’s
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Thu Nov-20-08 08:34 AM
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Thu Nov-20-08 06:06 PM
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4. Here There Be Dragons... |
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"... where life is anything but a feathered mystery and every raven’s wing is touched softly with starlight, angel powder. "
really nice imagery. :loveya:
:donut: :hi:
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Thu Nov-20-08 12:48 PM
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Lovely, with a hard edge to it...
I love this one!
Thank you...
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