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JOHN DORSEY
the hunger of divine mermaids i used to play with starvation that black cat of magic as if it were my daughter though there was nothing there but a plate of hollow bones carving out dead languages with crayons children used to pray they'd hear the call of shadows playing mellow in the shade i could hear them tempting the mermaids of divine hunger with love songs belted out for little more than strange fruit floating under the sun on billie's death-mask feeling the the stale breathe of jim and huck that once divided and made whole our nation's red sea whispered as blues on the tongues of young lovers an american musical set to morse code in the heat of passion they sang praise glory be whatever you make of it in the rain that which has held us in its cradle we take to our grave and call it a history lesson John Dorsey currently resides in Toledo, OH. He is the author of "Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel" with S.A. Griffin and Scott Wannberg, Butchershop Press/Rose of Sharon Press/Temple of Man, 2005, and "Moshing With The Cosmos" with Iris Berry, Magenta Press, 2005. He can be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com |
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