Tarot Reading for Flora 2/15/10
Question: Will I sell my House?
I’m moving anyway,
alive with forward motion,
and flying on mercurial staves.
Some piffling deals still to ground,
a few trifling negotiations.
I’m moving anyway.
A sculptor’s art is my crown.
I’m using all the gifts that I own,
flying on mercurial staves.
I’ve finished hobbling aground.
I’m due a benificent boon.
I’m moving anyway.
A home I’ve always found.
There’s not a single portent of doom.
I’m flying on mercurial staves.
The skills I possess abound.
I’m sure I’ll find work soon.
I’m moving, anyway.
I’ve got one staff left to lean on,
apart from a few living goods.
I’m moving anyway,
flying on mercurial staves.
Tarot Reading for B. March 4, 2010
Question: Will I be Reunited with my Sweetheart?
I want you, but I can’t raise the dead!
Daily work with like minds keeps you at bay
while promised renewal strengthens my heart.
Fear of deception devils my sleep.
and nightly I drown in the cup of your betrayal.
I want you, but I can’t raise the dead!
It wasn’t easy when I took my leave,
yet resurrection I couldn’t delay
when promise of renewal strengthened my heart.
I hold to the real goods I’ve gained.
Before I love you, myself I must pay
in kind! I want you but I can’t raise the dead.
I would choose you if today you appeared;
if feeling, more than resolve, cleared the way,
and promise of renewal strengthened my heart.
But wait til the bright light of summer heat
clears my sight too, and I will say
yes! I want you but I can’t raise the dead
til promised renewal strengthens my heart.
Tarot Reading for B 2/16/10
Question: Will I Get Sober?
This cup I hold was mixed before birth,
but by crude fortune wasted.
It holds Temperance of body and soul.
I am blessed in my Fool’s blind flight.
On unsure ground heady steps I’ve taken.
This cup I hold was mixed before birth.
The World is my refuge, land where I might.
Untried places my spirits awaken
with sweet Temperance of body and soul.
If the Fool risks blindly, Judgement is sight
of new landings, and old ways forsaken.
This cup I hold was mixed before birth.
The Sun’s comfort turns by Moon’s light
to terror and gives way to betrayal
of Temperance. Body and soul
I am loss itself. I want escape, fighting
The hand of the Devil wringing my entrails.
This cup I hold was mixed before birth.
Adept fugitive, a new World you’ll find,
whose gold is disposed to aid you.
The cup you hold was mixed before birth
to give Temperance of body and soul.
Posted 14 Mar 2010 — by billie
Category Poetry
For an instant he caught the camera and held his gaze
then turned away as slow as brain death to the hand
on his shoulder and the face hovering near, as if to comfort
him for the ordeal. They’d given him opium, an old practice
and concession, too, for the viewers and cutters, and to add
the delicate ambiguity of mercy to the mix of horror and pain.
The slow register of another slice, each time more remote,
more glazed. He’d already died. Preordained–
like Christ, a prisoner. The artists got it right:
that so erotic agony. But none saw the register of disgust
in turning from the pornographic gaze of self-knowledge.
Only the bloody edges show of the deep holes in his chest,
the ragged breasts carved in–delicate concession
to the document’s fine sensibility–it’s all in the face anyway.
He’d rather the essential human touch of the enemy
than that alien stare. At the 100th or the 1,000th cut,
they close in, intent on their art. In the steady rain,
only his face turns up, eyes open, as in the renditions.
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? But it was not a prayer–
how could it be? He only wanted to be cleansed.
–Billie
Posted 07 Mar 2010 — by Eve
Category Poetry
This is a limited (500 printed) edition of poetry written in the wake of the death of George Maciunas and published in 1981. It is dedicated to Madame George. Cover Design by Carolyn Guyer, photo by Hollis Melton.
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Orlando, FL. 32821
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