HE SEEMS TO BE GRANITE
He seems to be granite.
He seems to be a mountain of granite
but his heart breaks
not with a roar
but a snap
I've seen a river of ice
crush its way to the ocean
crash like lava to a shadow-raving sea.
It's not like that.
It's like one long tear
sliding down a neck.
This is not the confidence
of a man prepared to kill
more like the silence
of the flight of a bird
seen through cross-hairs.
What is this?
Grief?
__________
posted by Jack H @ 02:22
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The Return of The Rivers
All the rivers run into the sea;
yet the sea is not full;
unto the place from whence the rivers come,
thither they return again.
It is raining today
in the mountains.
It is a warm green rain
with love
in its pockets
for spring is here,
and does not dream
of death.
Birds happen music
like clocks ticking heaves
in a land
where children love spiders,
and let them sleep
in their hair.
A slow rain sizzles
on the river
like a pan
full of frying flowers,
and with each drop
of rain
the ocean
begins again.
-Richard Gary Brautigan
Yes, it's true. Almost everything's true, somewhere. But I reply specifically, in
STATE OF MATTER.
http://broodingdane.blogspot.com/2006/03/states-of-matter.html
J
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