Saturday, November 14, 2015

ISIS



ISIS CLIMBS THE LADDER TO THE SACRED HEART

Five times a day

Destroy
Kill
Pray

Destroy Kill Pray
Destroy Kill Pray

Five times a day

Destroy
Kill
Pray

Destroy
Kill
Pray

Five times a day

GOD
 IS
GREAT

 !!


ISIS CLIMBS THE LADDER TO THE SACRED HEART

The men
the men of Isis
the black clad
men of

ISIS

jostle
push
shove
one another

until
jostling
pushing
&
shoving
becomes

dancing

at the foot
of the ladder

that leans

impossibly

against

the
razor sharp
sky

that holds

THE
SACRED HEART

THE BEATING AND BLEEDING SACRED HEART 

The men
the black clad
well armed
men
of
ISIS

jostle push shove
and
dance
a
frenzy

shouting

! GOD IS GREAT !

a prayer
made of
brass & powder.



A
man
 of
ISIS

a black clad
well armed
man
of
ISIS
dances
best
prays
with
brass & powder
fervor

grabs
the
bottom
rung
of
the
ladder
to
the
SACRED HEART

hoists himself
&
climbs
&
climbs
&
climbs

until
he
feels

HEAT
&
PULSE
&
RAIN OF BLOOD

and
drenched in blood
the
man
of
ISIS

pulls
a
sword

from
the
wounded heart

THE
SACRED
HEART

and
off
balance

falls

through

blue
sky

to land 

crumpled

a
 black
sack
of
ISIS

and
the
men
of
ISIS

the black clad
well armed
men
of
ISIS

jostle shove
&
pray
their
brass & powder
prayer

! GOD IS GREAT!

while
blood rain
drenches

all

and
gleaming
metal
drones
spray
the
men
of
ISIS
with
brass & powder
prayers

and

THE BEATING HEART

THE SACRED HEART

GOD'S SACRED HEART

breaks.


(a million ruby throated hummingbirds pierce the hearts of flowers everywhere)



RW
3.21.2015


Sunday, November 1, 2015

ALL SOULS LITANY OF WRITERS













Holy, holy, holy!

Holy the writers
Holy the written

Holy:

Saint Penny-a-Word
    Charles Dickens
Slumming in London
    Holy his cries of
          foul and shame
  
Holy:

Saint Walt Whitman
    singing the body
        electric
Holy his multitude of selves
    stretched across America

Holy:

Saint Emily Dickinson
    in her infinity of rooms
changing and charging
            language

Holy, and have mercy on us,

Saint Eugene O'Neill
    martyr to family,
and terrible memory

Holy:

Saint Henry Miller
    embracing everything
because everything was

Holy!

Saint Anais Nin
     patroness of dream

    Holy!

And have mercy on us,

Saint Jack Kerouac
    Holy Jack
who suffered and died
    a skid-road
    mountain-top
    word-drunk
Franciscan Bohdisatva
        
        Sancte:

Santo Pablo Neruda
    whose heart
held his country
    and whose lyrics
encircled the world

        Sancte:

Santo Victor Jara
    whose hands
were blazing

Holy, and have mercy on us,

Saint Allen Ginsberg
    Holy
        Queer
            Hindu -Bu-Jew
whose crazy wisdom touched us all

        Holy:

Saint William Seward
    Junky Queer Burroughs
who devoured the Naked Lunch
looked into the abyss
    saw the Wild Boys
    the centipedes
    the assassins;
Holy Bill Burroughs
Winking at blood-soaked time
    and wrapping his last breath around

            Love!

Holy the writers
who wrap their breath
around
                    
            Love!

Holy the writers
Holy the written
Holy the word

Holy!