HEART THREAD Parts Fifty-One and Fifty-Two

51.

So the sun keeps rising I keep gloom
to myself

mockingbird on the rail in love with
half an apple

sing to me Caruso sing to me all your
arias

you like me can be anybody else

to hide my own song in another’s

they say Pavarotti could not read
music

so he had to become Nemorino Edgardo
Cavaradossi

flesh became song oh the fat ones we
were

to impersonate myself unlock the
truth

read the horoscope of strangers

to see the way we stand and move

the Talking Cure without one word
being said.

52.

Selvanus must have been one of our gods

Lord Esus in the woodlot with a
hatchet

or we had no gods we had persons

to study the habits of and to revere

because reverence is all

and these holy images of women and of
men

make us revere the ones who walk with
us

ourselves as much as anybody

if gods are anywhere they must be in
you

and you, there are no places we are
not

when people are asleep the world goes
home

I woke the sun up this morning go to
bed with her tonight.

ROBERT
KELLY