Two Poems from Sesquipedalian Rain Chant
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But for now, we wanted to share two wonderful poems from Sesquipedalian Rain Chant.
Sappho
Come, Sappho, with wings darting through air toward crumbling mass of rock and water we call Sky. “Do for me whatever I desire.” What a wish! So long ago imagined, seed of the world speaking wisdom. Next spring a feeling comes, born of opposites: cold sweat, thin fire. All of us have felt it. That’s why we know Sirach’s right: A soul heated by a fire will not be quenched until it’s consumed. Lovers won’t rest till the end of the world, starlight reaching for the boundless in rays that never return. You, Sappho, range the halls, your life force circling toward dust. Kingdoms make war and husbands return, but you’re off exploring planets’ tender glow. Begin now with me on a rainy day like this at autumn’s door.
Silver Morning Drizzle Song
Tu Fu remembers his friends at night and I watch swallows dog fight in the grass images impossible until they’re written in the heart all I ever see are boxes I haven’t put away recall letters warning my car is bad to drive a new sheen of rain gloss on the table out back nothing to hide Oregon in wet March spate for earth to glug your neverending thirst a psalm to spoon into our hollows smell of midden carbon basalt tinged one wren waits for intermission to pour cinders out to gunmetal sky I amass these days smutched and blotted before senses dim and spirit twists free
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