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 GENGHIS KHAN

 

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I dreamt last night that John died

I didn't know that he was a poet

or that he was in love with her

she who is in love with Genghis Khan
kissing him openly
he kissing her
like a horse slaking its thirst
having run the breadth of the steppes
to drink from the coolest
calmest
sweetest pool of water



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who mothered the man
       that would conquer half the world?

who held the weanling to her breast
       that would muster men and horses
              make them into armies
       and then make them ride behind him?

who gave him the teat
       when all she could expect in return
             was the joy of giving?

-and then set him free like a bird on the air



iii

imagine music

 

a sonata building

 

into a symphony

 

more than melancholy
-tempestuous foreboding
each note becomes the cadence of hoof-beats
hail upon iron
a symphony of percussion

out of the East
the music of storm-clouds
riding upon the pride of men and horses

 


 

 

 

  My daughter "Vaseline"

  introduced me to AP
  You can read her at:
  Vaseline at All poetry

 

 

 

 "face": Photo at Thousand Isands, Ontario;10/10/09.

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