zafusy

after Giorgio De Chirico

Elongated
T’s.

Per
molto
tempo
ancora?

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Heavy-headed, volute
      Lip-sign—
Mimetic of prayer?

Lignite eyes—paralyzed
      On some invisible thing—curse
The foreign tongue.

With fields afull,
      Midnight crater aglow,
Explorers rave

Enluted loculi—
      Bland
Lightning in hand.

Damn weight of earth-core,
      How evade?
Stare & swear 
 
Ancestors’
      Golden Wave
Will rise—arise avenging resurrections.

Mute obituary-tempt
      A
Voodoo.  The days recede in stairs to

Tonatiuh, where
      Forgers
Pick at wings of Quetzalcoatl.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

Nuptial

  Boat,

Child Atlantic

Society’s

  Isle & uncharted

Desertum.  Kafir, etceteras. . . . 

Capt.

  Plume

Airs bald eagle

Eye

  Slight

Thwart retrospect

Capt.

  Hawk,

Mate Crow, Ensign Dickey. 

Cloud’s

  A moo’s

Utah.  Squirt!

Lean

  Portly. 

Rough reverse. 

Will o’

  Sea. 

Better or worse.

Din o’

  Sea-

Ubiety.  Portal duct.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

The meniscus
      Wabbles, absorbs,
Inures. . . .  A last-gasp
      Bubble breaks

Face, explodes a
      Gaseous vibration o’
It. The
      Mercurial element

Distinguishes it-
      Self from noxious
Oxides, phlegm &
      Blood.  Shock

Startles intuition. . . . 
      The novitiate
Ends—
      Reagent exemplar.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

The rocker’s arm-
    Chair
Rhythmic motive—
    Ping, 

Hic. 
    Elective coo. 
Minor
    Keys latch midg- 

Et
    Doors,
Free condemned green
    Dun.   

Whiten
    Dun—electronic gimmickry. 
Whiten
    Dun & drown them.   

At last, a well-fixed
    Relative.  Major—Corps & Signal war. 
Hic. 
    A victor’s emblem!  A haft in plaited hair! 

The rocker’s arm-
    Chair
Rhythmic motive taps
    A hollow ping dun.

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino