Saint Julian Press Poet

Fred LaMotte - ​SAVOR ETERNITY

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I KNOW MY DOG IS DREAMING

 

I know my dog is dreaming when his legs grind like broken gears

and he barks like an embryo.

I know my cat is dreaming when she purrs with half open eyes

in which I see cities on fire, ancient towers collapsing into the sea.

 

I do not know when I am dreaming. Perhaps I am the butterfly

Chung T'zu mistook for himself

 

in a reverie brought on by eating mysterious noodles cooked

in the hut of an old woman, whose body was a chrysalis

 

from which the New Moon emerged like a hungry moth

to wake him up.

 

I once thought I was a Taoist. I once thought I was a Christian.

 

Now I know that my religion is what comes from honeysuckle

and alfalfa, the gold

 

I drip on stone-cut buckwheat groats. My religion is

the syncretism of raspberries, walnuts, and cream.

 

My religion is the way children and their grandparents

behave around food,

 

when their parents escape to the kitchen to argue in secret

desperation about the cost of staying alive.

 

My religion is your arms around me, mine around you,

and the willingness to remain like this and do nothing

 

while our hearts murmur to each other about how

hard and simple it is to ask for love.

 

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Savor Eternity

 

By Alfred K. LaMotte

 

Available soon through ~ Ingram Content Group ~ Amazon ~ Barnes & Noble ~ Fine Book Distributors & Retailers

Savory Eternity by Alfred K. LaMotte  *  ISBN-13:  978-0-9965231-4-1*  ISBN 10:  0-9965231-4-6


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