HEART THREAD Parts Thirty-Three and Thirty-Four

33.

The French called them enfances

stories about the childhood of great
men

heroes before they could lift up the
sword

we are infants too and we have swords

we call them memories to use against
the world

is what just seems to happen

remedium amoris remember the last time

the taste in your mouth the nasty
telephone

things never change the way you do

cause without effect tugboat awash in
storm

I love the taste of what won’t let me
be

thighs of a scarecrow feathers of a
clock.

34.

Take a long time to work it out

merciless mankind at the mill with
slaves

of course I remember my masters

John O’Clock and William Psalm W.S.

brown Thomas and the Jewess of
Baltimore T.B. G.S.

I am the Middle Ages born again

reviver of dragons mountebank of
miracles

three drops of my own blood in the
snow

and I was the woman I was the lost
Christ

I was the ship to Marseille and the
cave in the Vaucluse

I was the stone he stepped on

I was the crown on the soft hair of
his head.

ROBERT
KELLY