Mar '12
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It's that time of the week again!
I rescued this poem from Disgrace by J M Coetzee (p27) and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (p193). What do you think? Or maybe I should ask how you feel.
Disgrace
Beer fingers pressed
his face towers
leaning like a lover
whispering wary affairs
murmurs no
whispers no
raise sweater
rip singlet
kick shoes
slip stockings
says no
repeats no
wracked forehead, mouth, shoulders, arms, hands, wrists, fists, buttocks, legs, ankles
snarls no
crying no
clinking movement
honey drinking
warm unfurled crushed will
no
no
heavy hands stroke folds
looped to bottles of misery
snake uncurled, hard against belly
intoxicating rock of female
clasped to a basket of heat
perforated prisoner
twitched, transfixed, then flicker
suddenly the idea of ice, blackening, double-towered, in waves
reared storm tilting soundlessly, quickly.
Repeat no.
Meant no.
Dead-man's-fingers cover absence.
I rescued this poem from Disgrace by J M Coetzee (p27) and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (p193). What do you think? Or maybe I should ask how you feel.
Disgrace
Beer fingers pressed
his face towers
leaning like a lover
whispering wary affairs
murmurs no
whispers no
raise sweater
rip singlet
kick shoes
slip stockings
says no
repeats no
wracked forehead, mouth, shoulders, arms, hands, wrists, fists, buttocks, legs, ankles
snarls no
crying no
clinking movement
honey drinking
warm unfurled crushed will
no
no
heavy hands stroke folds
looped to bottles of misery
snake uncurled, hard against belly
intoxicating rock of female
clasped to a basket of heat
perforated prisoner
twitched, transfixed, then flicker
suddenly the idea of ice, blackening, double-towered, in waves
reared storm tilting soundlessly, quickly.
Repeat no.
Meant no.
Dead-man's-fingers cover absence.
Two great books, one of which was deeply disturbing, the other uplifting. Great source material. The poem seems to lean more to "Disgrace" - disturbing. It's a really interesting process JL. I must give it a go myself.
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