HEART THREAD 191 & 192

191.

So much denial kings before Eden

nothing was ever, all the rest was
obvious

Orpheus exiting from the underside of
words

can only tell the mind that comes to
speak

but o no o no the music always wins

flee back to ferly land and talk to
daisies

feast on clover and try to be

superbly be, as if a lion walked off
a coat of arms

and moved into one turret on my tower

and we lived together beside an
almond tree

the weather always told us what to do

look over the wheat field a ship
comes sailing.

192.

And there are the children at the
gate

the psalmists keening by the hilltop
shrines

the lean poesy of renunciation

when praise is all the air that feeds

go where every leaf has a word on it

our holy fire once for all

it spoke and said Do not be all male

for the masculine alone is weak

terribly weak and needy of conflict
to assert

what cannot be asserted

the unprovable axiom of manhood

building empires wrong again and
again wind blows away.

ROBERT
KELLY