In Honor of National Poetry Month
APRIL 14, 2007 Listen to this Story
- Gerrit Lansing
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This month, Weekend America is highlighting National Poetry Month by playing some of our favorite pomens, reda by the poets themselves. Gerrit Lansing reads his work, "A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines."
"A Poem of Love in Eleven Lines," by Gerrit Lansing
Dreamer of purified fury and fabulous habit,
your eyes of deserted white afternoons
target, stiffen, riot with unicorn candor
so I swallow your body like meanings or whiskey or as you swallow me.
Break rhythm here: your kiss is my justice:
look then now how orange blooms of jubilation unfold in satisfied air!
This sex is more than sex, under the will of the God of sex,
so I softly invoke transformation of your rueful image of haven
-- those frozen rocks, that guilty lighthouse isolate from temptation --
to warm Flemish landscape green and brighteyed with daisies of dizzying color
where pilgrims are dancing after gospelling birds who sing of new springs, good water.
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- Music Bridge:
- Blue Sands
- Artist: Colleen
- CD: Les Ondes Silencieuses (Leaf)
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