ROBERT
KELLY

HEART THREAD Parts Twenty-Nine and Thirty

Nov 3, 2014 | Uncategorized

29.
                                                                              J.W.v.G.
Queen of hell before whom only
shadows bow                                 down there is the secret name of here
a daughter crying for her unborn son
what shall I do with all my friends
fit all those women in one little car
all their Prada purses and
portmanteaux
and drive here over the waves to
underhill
where once I thought I stood alone
the boy in the cellar with his head
on fire
eyes lost in a book
sun setting over Brownsville
and the Sukkos booth humming with
laughter. 
 
30.
La Juive by Halévy because every Jewess is lost
lost in manworld lost in Goyistan
give me the truth in your soft lips
give me the wisdom of your cunning
wit
none of this religion matters
it is the will to be and be believed
a god is random a faith is definite
hold me to what’s important
cleavage between the dream and the
dock
oh God the sheep will never come back
the land itself is lost at sea
all that’s left is sing the temple
up. 

HEART THREAD Parts Twenty-Seven and Twenty-Eight

Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized

27.
Born in a beast’s cratch dead uplift
in agony
and in between gave meaning to the
world
why does the ocean always feel like
Christmas
why can’t I forget the things I never
knew
for this is personal this is Welsh
all DNA
this is a matter of sunlight on one
side of each wave
curls of light advancing to the land
because everybody else got born before
but there’s a messenger in each one
too
guiding the absorptions of the flesh
meaning the mind
dragging the stupid consciousness
along. 
 
28.
Oh God the you in me goes out to you
your way in space
you is a verb at least
in every me a you is cached
time is the solution
the me dissolves and leaves the you
active in the interior of earth
the boundless inwards of each living agent
what they used to call the self
before they knew
time is acid space is alkaline we
live between
salt flats of Utah high plains of
Tibet
understand the balance and fall free
god is a neuter in every sex.