FALL 2009



Mikhail Horowitz

THREE POEMS
BLUES

Because loss, unless easy street
Beckons. Likely? Un. Even Stagolee’s
Bitch looks ugly, East-Saint-
Beautiful-Louis under evening sleet.
Broken levee, unruffled Ethiopian smoking;
Busted locomotive uselessly endures. Such
Bullshit. Listen up every Southern
Black lyric, understand? Especially stuff
Blind Lemon utters, each subversive
Bray, lament, ululation, entreaty, song.
Because longing, until everyone sings
Beyond losing, until everyone sings.


GODOT
Go on. Don’t. Over the
Gate. Oh, damn. Others—two
Gobs of dried offal. This
Grows onerous. Dire. Only the
God of dolts, old, tired,
Gaunt, odious, dicked out, thoroughly
Glum, ossified, done. Ouch. This
Grave, open ditch. Or that
Gaping orifice, dumb. Ontological trap.
Gogo’s offense: desperation. Occasion to
Go on, Didi. Only two
Ghosts, ours. Death’s on time.
RARA AVIS
Ravishing air, risen, aloft, a virtuosic individual soars,
Raptorial, above rivers, arêtes, and verdant islands, swoops
Rapturously alone, regarding Alps as vaporous iotas, she
Roves, angelically removed . . . all artists voyage in such
Rarefied atmosphere, restless aspirants, aethereal vagrants
investigating snowy
Ranges—Athena’s ravens accompany volant intellects,
squawking


Mikhail Horowitz is the author of a collage/caption opus, Big League Poets (City Lights, 1978), and two collections of poetry. His performance work has been featured on more than a dozen CDs, including The Blues of the Birth, a selection of his jazz fables released by Euphoria! Jazz (Sundazed Records). His day gig finds him holding down, not very firmly, an editorial desk in the Publications Office at Bard College.


 


 

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