Thursday, January 26, 2012

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I suggest two short verses they can be part of one poem or two individual poems but each must include the following and in this order:

"bring me"
"would you be willing?"

doesn't matter how they fit into the verses (ie how many lines before or in between) just as long as they're in that order

bring me to  mountains
at the foot             at early day
                where I will kneel belly and knees like sack-clothed postulants
in dust
in sun
scorch                    skin        
elbows burrow                     caked                     dirt, clay
only heat
only dry                 straw crackles       but still                   no songs
of birds or angels

 bramble afire       I guess at mid-day
but my face I hide in thorns strewn at the foot of mountains
remove, it is said,  sandals (due to the ground being holy).
will my skin  touch holiness without intervention of synthetic material will it cry out will it transform will it dance with the angel in flames will my ear-drums listen to directions as they listen to synthetic voices
would I even, in this twenty-first century, understand how to move with only the body and even more, would I be willing
so, tell me, you who does not hide your face, would you be willing


               

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