Wild Violet online literary magazine » Henry Goldkamp https://www.wildviolet.net Wed, 06 Sep 2023 21:11:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 Against Black Riders from the Desert https://www.wildviolet.net/2017/12/23/against-black-riders/ https://www.wildviolet.net/2017/12/23/against-black-riders/#comments Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:09:52 +0000 http://www.wildviolet.net/?p=5486 Old-fashioned cockail with superimposed words

 

after Stephen Crane’s “Black Riders Came from the Sea”

A half-full phenomenon—
endless russets of dirt
horizoned & drinking
generous, bottomless blue.

Godlings with shakers sing
the chink & clink of hard wet ice.

This doleful infinity
meant no harm.

It is only wight
in your eyes, or blood
from some tongue.

Our sadness wrings the mop
-up of the cropless
&  the cloudless.

Life is delicious, slow-cooked
at 98° F. Wedged onto God’s rim—
a lemon wheel coated
in bitters, some garnish.

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