FRED
LAMOTTE
SAINT JULIAN
PRESS POET
CARNIVAL OF DRUNKEN POETS
Ran into Kerouac at the Carnival of Drunken Poets,
where those just dead meet those about to be reborn.
Jack and I have wandered through the zodiac, prodigal suns
under the 13th sign, the sign of inebriation in the house of Lilith,
with Coyote rising, the Moon single and pregnant again.
We meet here every 26 thousand years.
The heavenly huckster sees us coming and shouts: "Step right up!"
Watch gladiator-poets beat each other silly with roses.
One will die of wounds that gush communion wine!”
The crowd is ferocious, hungry for metaphors.
I bow to Jack, Jack bows to me.
We make the fatal mistake of opening our mouths.
"Gorilla lilies at my Resurrection!" he wails.
I refute him, "We forbid the silly physicists of tantra
to taste our semi-sweet chakras,”
to which he replies, "I spin galaxies of cotton candy
from the dark matter of God's breath."
I demand, "What overflows the hexagon of your hollow grail?"
He answers, "Honey from the horny void!"
I shout, "Supernova crème brulée!"
And Jack replies, "Why should the midnight hummingbird
not sip rainbows from my wounded eye?"
I insist, "Nanno-galaxy in the groin of an electric frog!"
Jack says, "A medicine woman must dance in your thalamus."
It's no use, I'm weeping now, as Jack, the master sommelier,
whispers, "Dip the brackish water from the womb, extract
the secret chi, burn the afterbirth as inexhaustible green fuel."
I can only reply, "Drop a song of worms into the beak
of my feathery daughter as she stumbles into the sky."
Jack murmurs, "When I set the loaf of my body on fire,
God will blow out the flame, I will become snow."
Ran into Kerouac at the Carnival of Drunken Poets,
where those just dead meet those about to be reborn.
Jack and I have wandered through the zodiac, prodigal suns
under the 13th sign, the sign of inebriation in the house of Lilith,
with Coyote rising, the Moon single and pregnant again.
We meet here every 26 thousand years.
The heavenly huckster sees us coming and shouts: "Step right up!"
Watch gladiator-poets beat each other silly with roses.
One will die of wounds that gush communion wine!”
The crowd is ferocious, hungry for metaphors.
I bow to Jack, Jack bows to me.
We make the fatal mistake of opening our mouths.
"Gorilla lilies at my Resurrection!" he wails.
I refute him, "We forbid the silly physicists of tantra
to taste our semi-sweet chakras,”
to which he replies, "I spin galaxies of cotton candy
from the dark matter of God's breath."
I demand, "What overflows the hexagon of your hollow grail?"
He answers, "Honey from the horny void!"
I shout, "Supernova crème brulée!"
And Jack replies, "Why should the midnight hummingbird
not sip rainbows from my wounded eye?"
I insist, "Nanno-galaxy in the groin of an electric frog!"
Jack says, "A medicine woman must dance in your thalamus."
It's no use, I'm weeping now, as Jack, the master sommelier,
whispers, "Dip the brackish water from the womb, extract
the secret chi, burn the afterbirth as inexhaustible green fuel."
I can only reply, "Drop a song of worms into the beak
of my feathery daughter as she stumbles into the sky."
Jack murmurs, "When I set the loaf of my body on fire,
God will blow out the flame, I will become snow."
THE NECTAR OF THIS BREATH
Fred LaMotte © 2022
Fred LaMotte © 2022
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Publication Date: April 15, 2022
Paperback: $20.00 ISBN-13: 978-1-955194-02-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2021949958 Number of pages: 142 Publisher: Saint Julian Press, Inc. For an advance copy, contact publisher: Ron Starbuck |
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Email: ronstarbuck@saintjulianpress.com * Web: www.saintjulianpress.com
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