JOSEPH CERAVOLO
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The Green Lake Is Awake

CROSS FIRE

This is the second day without anyone. I am chinning against a dark sky to strengthen my arms. A picture of everyone I love passes through me. No clear light streams thru this cell. There's no dawn. What have I gained by lying in this abyss, waiting for the masonry  to show a little slit for my soul to get through?

DRUNKEN WINTER

Oak oak! like like it then     cold some wild paddle so sky then; flea you say "geese geese" the boy June of winter of again Oak sky

 

INRI

BLOODSUCKER

Break it all down! We're too mesmerized to break from this vampire, America.

 

MISTAKE

When I button my fly I button it wrong and I laugh. My crotch looks lopsided.

 

INFINITE THUNDER

What a beautiful storm! Infinite thunder! Wishing to be home No wonder.

 

GHOSTS OF SPRING

The ghost of Spring has reappeared, clearing my throat of winter I make the first move

 

Millenium Dust

AFTER IMAGE

Nobody can get inside me until the angels get there first. A vision stands scratching his wing on the other side. Two angels fly among the trees. O ocean that stops my blood O sun! That dries it up O clouds that carry it off and the courage inside our tough organism         that loses life so easily. Think what you want          about the uselessness          of art for art's sake, or science as a social metaphor. Neither can change         this world or become a comrade to the enslaved  embittered masses or a ruby in the elite crown  of the greedy few. That is why nobody is allowed inside me until the angels  bring their defiant message  to reconstruct the resumption          of life everlasting                           of love, of hope.

 

PERPETUAL LIFE

  The sun disappears behind hills, a white light still remains. No pink or red or orange with tight purple streaks,  through a white cloud. I suddenly feel we can never be destroyed, but I know otherwise.         It's only a daydream         an overwhelming breeze a constriction that I can't see opening up in the heart on a warm evening.

 

Spring In This World of Poor Mutts

LIGHTHOUSE

  All this summer fun. The big waves, and waiting (the moon is broken) for the moon to come out and revive the water.  You look and you want to watch as men feel the beer breaking on their lips, and women seem like the sun on your little back. Where are you closer to everything? in the plants?  on the photograph or the little heart that's not  used to beating like the waves' foam?           A wasp is looking for a hole in the screen. No.  There's no man in the lighthouse. There's no woman there, but there is a light there; it's a bulb. And I think how complete you are  in its light.  Flash......... Flash..... .................................... And I think of how our own room  will smell; You lying on one bed and we in the other, facing the... flash..... .....................Flash

 

NOTHING

Nothing exists that does no empty. Who are you feeling?  Who do you bite in the morning? Our health? when we're sick is the body coming.         Our love, a mountain fuming     in the ocean like a graceful race such as black.  When the shores overtake in the continent. When the heroes are phony, and our house less than rubble will there be a bite, a memory still left?

TRANSMIGRATION SOLO

LIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD

You light like a flashlight something through the west of worn shades.     All this great fun     and you like a dark     of misunderstanding only     bring a large sample of green     while people dance to      rock and roll in spanish.     All the littles on the wall watching     while the parrot and the dog again sleep. The moon like a  stopped cannon ball: so little difference between us. I search the corners for you and I am drunk in a park  or a hallway at night. Being in the street is being gone in the largest apple in the universe.

 

DINOSAURS OF PAIN

There are no dinosaurs but man suffers still more.     Morning, roaring     tiger of trying to keep. In the engine silo,     there are no dinosaurs     of pain that are hurried     enough: Morning Star!

TRANSMIGRATION SOLO

See the black bird in that tree trying out the branches, puzzled. I am up there with you puzzled against the rain blinking my eyes.



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