LXXXVII
I Was Swimming
All pants soldiers now present recapitulate to the march
The prisoners the white cloth the high black boots
An open door or holy now sugary white the straits are overflowing
Onto the eyes and the hollow Now the silent or the showercaps
I never leave. My sorcery won’t quit I eat for days on a cargo ship
Or boys’ arms small feet toes. The captain is a loudmouth a singer hangs out his gauzy under-things on a line.
If you’ve come here from the underground of Georgia hauling pave stones
If the brown hours of the evening step aside slowly Your horse neighs
A ghost appears a spirit a hurricane attired in roses.
Ever all the brown men all the whispering lovers Your horse noses them.
It’s as if the ice cream shop never was. The few sources of information we had flee the city
And then an elephant. My skull. August honey
He’s here. Who’s sitting on my suitcase? I have a question
And doors open a small garden an open shall we say you make me jumpy passing in your white sweater?
It is the dry land how to open their shells who is crawling
Beneath the waists of adults towards the liquor cabinet? Stewardesses?
Mouths full of little bullets a palate open at the waist shyly her small belly
The door opens… the dessert tray is rolled in a hired tired violin player
Has his face in the pie. In Rome it seems a brute will push you into sweets
Into all the open. Now a harbor now all the plains.