to the boat.
* * *
A pair of Wings
Crash
High winds of Karma
Sirens
Laughter young voices
in the mts.
* * *
Saints
the Negro, Africa
Tattoo
eyes like time
* * *
Build temporary habitations, games
chambers, play there, hide.
First man stood, shifting stance
while germs of sight
unfurl'd Flags in his skull
and quickening, hair, nails, skin
turned slowly, whirl'd, in
the warm aquarium, warm
wheel turning.
Cave fish, eels, gray salamanders
turn in their night career of sleep.
The idea of vision escapes
the animal worm whose earth
is an ocean, whose eye is its body.
* * *
The theory is that birth is prompted
by the child's desire to leave the womb.
But in the photograph an unborn horse's
neck strains inward w/legs scooped out.
From this everything follows:
Swallow milk at the breast
until there's no milk.
Squeeze wealth at the rim
until tile pools claim it.
He swallows seed, his pride
until w/pale mouth legs
she sucks the root, dreading
world to devour child.
Doesn't the ground swallow me
when I die, or the sea
if I die at sea?
* * *
The City: Hive, Web, or severed
insect mound. All citizens heirs
of the same royal parent.
The caged beast, the holy center,
a garden in the midst of the city.
"See Naples die".
Jump ship. Rats, sailors
death.
So many wild pigeons.
Animals ripe w/new diseases.
"There is only one disease
and I am its catalyst",
cried doomed pride of the carrier.
Fighting, dancing, gambling,
bars, cinemas thrive
in the avid summer.
* * *
Savage destiny
Naked girl, seen from behind,
on a natural road
Friends
explore the labyrinth
— Movie
young woman left on the desert
A city gone mad w/fever
* * *
Sisters of the unicorn, dance
Sisters brothers of Pyramid
Dance
Mangled hands
Tales of the Old Days
Discovery of the Sacred Pool
changes
Mute-handed stillness baby cry
The wild dog
The sacred beast
Find her!
* * *
He goes to see the girl
of the ghetto.
Dark savage streets.
A hut, lighted by candle.
She is magician
Female prophet
Sorceress
Dressed in the past
All arrayed.
The stars
The moon
She reads the future
in your hand.
* * *
The walls are garish red
The stairs
High discordant screaming
She has the tokens.
"You too"
"Don't go"
He flees.
Music renews.
The mating-pit.
"Salvation"
Tempted to leap in circle.
Negroes riot.
* * *
A file of young people
going thru a small woods.
* * *
They are filming something
in the street, in front of
our house.
* * *
Walking to the riot
Spreads to the houses
the lawns
suddenly alive now
w/people
running
* * *
I don't dig what they did
to that girl
Mercy pack
