Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Yum. More poems.

Can't stop won't stop with the poems online.
That's not true. I'm stopping now. I've got work to do.
Before I do though, here's a good poem by a good poet who I also here is a pretty good person. The schweet trifecta.

Dear Empire [these are your temples]
by Oliver de la Paz

Dear Empire,

These are your temples. There are rows of stone countenances, pillar after pillar. As if walking through a forest filled with alabaster heads: here, the frown. The gaze. The luminous stare.

Smoke from the incense curls, shapes itself against the archways, rubs against the grooves of the columns. Only a few men press their heads to their hands.

Outside, archeologists excavate a stone torso. Bound in coils of fraying rope, it rises before us, pulled upwards by a backhoe. Its form momentarily hides the sun, though as it sways, the light strikes our eyes. Saying yes. Saying no.




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