03-16-2023, 05:53 PM
“I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life”
– Cleopatra, "Antony and Cleopatra" (scene ii), by William Shakespeare
A Blizzard
like powdered amnesia
hushes land and sky--
horizon's lost all meaning.
This isn’t a noble place
but the soil is red
and sometimes the river freezes over in gold
like god is an artery cut through our centre
and still people work
descending through the days
like geese in perfect pitch
of pale plumes and snowfall.
Our history is the history of falling,
and violence,
and love,
the soil is red
and everywhere the earth screamed so loud
it lost its voice
again and again
I give to baser life.
I give to baser life”
– Cleopatra, "Antony and Cleopatra" (scene ii), by William Shakespeare
A Blizzard
like powdered amnesia
hushes land and sky--
horizon's lost all meaning.
This isn’t a noble place
but the soil is red
and sometimes the river freezes over in gold
like god is an artery cut through our centre
and still people work
descending through the days
like geese in perfect pitch
of pale plumes and snowfall.
Our history is the history of falling,
and violence,
and love,
the soil is red
and everywhere the earth screamed so loud
it lost its voice
again and again
I give to baser life.