He moves in disturbed
Nile Insect
Air
More of your miracles
More of your magic arms
Call out of the Wilderness
Call out of fever, receiving
the wet dreams
of an Aztec King.
Now for the valley.
Now for the syrup hair.
Stabbing the eyes, widening
skies
behind the skull bone.
Swift end of hunting.
Hug round the
swollen torn breast & red-stained throat.
The hounds gloat.
Take her
home.
Carry our sister's body, back
to the boat.
Sirens
Laughter & young voices
in the mts.
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 eyes is its body.
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 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.
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
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!
The stars
The moon
She reads the future
in your hand.
The mating-pit.
"Salvation"
Tempted to leap in circle.
Negroes riot.
suddenly alive now
w/ people
running
I saw a lynching
Met the strange men of the souther swamp
Cypress was
their talk
Fish-call & bird-song
Roots & signs out of all
knowing
They chanced to be there
Guides, to the white
gods.
- a high wailing keening
piercing animal lament
from a woman
high
atop a Mt. tower
- Thin wire fence
in the mind
dividing the heart
ChoktaiA creature is nursing
leave!
evil
leave!
No come here
Leave her!
In the morning
Chief w/drew his troops
& planned a map
The
horsemen rose on up
the women fixed the ropes
on tight
The tents are
folded now
We march toward the sea
Now the soft parade
has soon begun.
Cool pools
from a tired
land
sink now
in the peace of evening.
Clouds weaken
&
die.
The sun, an orange skull,
whispers quietly, becomes an
island,
& is gone.
There they are
watching
us everything
will be dark.
The light
changed.
We were aware
knee-deep in the fluttering air
as the ships
move on
trains in their wake.
Trench mouth
again in the
camps.
Gonorrhea
Tell the girl to go home
We need a witness
to the
killing.
I can't believe this is happening
I can't believe all these people
are
sniffing each other
& backing away
teeth grinning
hair raised,
growling, here in
the slaughtered wind
I am ghost killer.
witnessing to all
my blessed sanction
This is it
no more fun
the death of all joy
has come.
Do you dare
deny my
potency
my kindness
or forgiveness?
Just
try
you will fry
like the rest
in holiness
And not for a
penny
will I spare
any time
for you
Ghost
children
down there
in the frightening world
You are alone
& have no need of other
you & the child
mother
who bore you
who weaned you
who made you man
Kill me!
Kill the child who made
Thee.
Kill the
thought-provoking
senator of lust
who brought you to this state.
Kill hate
disease
warfare
sadness
Kill badness
Kill madness
Kill photo mother murder tree
Kill me.
Kill yourself
Kill the little
blind elf.
The beautiful monster
vomits a stream of watches
clocks jewels knives
silver
coins & copper blood
The well of time & trouble
whiskey bottles perfume
razor blades
beads
liquid insects hammers
& thin nails the feet of
birds eagle
feathers & claws
machine parts chrome
teeth hair shards of
pottery
& skulls the ruins
of our time the debris by
a lake the
gleaming
beer cans & rust & sable
menstrual fur
Dance naked on broken
bones feet bleed & stain
glass cuts cover
your mind
& the dry end of vacuum
boat white the people
drop lines
in still pools
& pull ancient trout
from the deep home.
Scales
crusted & gleaming green
A knife was stolen. A
valuable
hunting knife
By some strange boys
from the other camp across
the Lake
My son will not die in the war
He will return
numbed peasent voice of
Orient
fisherman
Last time you said
this was the only way
voice of tender young girl
Running & speaking
infected green
jungles
consult the oracle
bitter creek
crawl
they exist on rainwater
monkey-love
mantra mate
maker of brandy
The poison isles
The poison
Take this thin granule
of evil snakeroot
from the southern
shore
way out miracle
will find thee
The chopper blazed over
inward click & sure
blasted matter,
made
the time bombs free
of leprous lands
spotted w/ hunger
&
clinging to law
Please
show us your ragged head
& silted smiling eyes
calm in
fire
a silky flowered shirt
edging the eyes, alive
spidery,
distant
dial lies
come, calm one
into the life-try
already wifelike
latent, leathery, loose
lawless, large &
languid
She was a kingdom-cry
legion of lewd marching
mind-men
Where are your manners
out there on the sunlit
desert
boundless
galaxies of dust
cactus spines, beads
bleach stones, bottles
& rust
cars, stored for shaping
The new man, time-soldier
picked his way narrowly
thru the crowded
ruins
of once grave city, gone
comic now w/ rats
& the insects of
refuge
He lives in cars
goes fruitless thru
the frozen schools
& finds
no space
in shades of obedience
the monitors are silenced
the great graveled guard-towers
sicken on the
westward beach
so tired of watching
if only on horse were left
to ride thru the waste
a dog at his
side
to sniff meat-maids
chained on the public poles
there is no more argument
in beds, at night
blackness is
burned
Stare into the parlors of town
where a woman dances
in her
European gown
to the great waltzes
this could be fun
to rule a
wasteland
This we know
that all are free
in the school-made
text of the
unforgiven
deceit smiles
incredible hardships are suffered
by those barely
able
to endure
but all will pass
lie down in green grass
& smile, & muse,
& gaze
upon her smooth
resemblance
to the mating-Queen
who it
seems
is in love
w/ the horseman
now, isn't that fragrant
Sir, isn't that knowing
w/ a wayward
careless
backward glance
July 24, 1968
Los Angeles, The United States, Hawaii