· the cultural society · » Eric Elshtain http://www.culturalsociety.org Sat, 05 May 2012 03:37:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Port Townsend, WA: 7th-20th Dec. 1999 http://www.culturalsociety.org/texts/poems/port-townsend-wa-7th-20th-dec-1999/ http://www.culturalsociety.org/texts/poems/port-townsend-wa-7th-20th-dec-1999/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:00:26 +0000 Eric Elshtain http://www.culturalsociety.org/?p=2211 "In thoughts of the visions of the night,
I saw long rows of angels in paradise,
each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti."
                                                                —Moby-Dick







[limestone]


as long as the last salt seance
advances like sea foam






[mycelium]


the rain & take
make shore houses
out of beads


your coral-free seascape
like a public mind






[coral]


you will not like
what gives this owning stone an air






[erne]


like the mushroom slows light
ashore with us —


lifts you into
the spinning story






[coniferous forest]


real in-ness of earth’s rotation
like pines shedding skulls






[orb-weaving spider]


childless like a magnet
under a light beam —

inactive sultan
cottoning entangled states






[night beach]

you observe
a candid tarantism

black prolonged leap
I will not believe

sharks in an ocean’s haloes
that bells

ring in heat coils
your listening ghost underway
would that we were

so into morning the entry stone
lichen’d white
might freeze completely






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