Gerald Locklin
hans-christian schink: autobahn landscape, photograph
nothing’s more concrete than concrete.
nothing’s less flat than a flatland.
ozone is as odorless as jesus.
relegate the barnyard to the
intersection of the land and sky.
push the people off the edge.
varnish the vanishing point.
untramelled autobahn from
everywhere to nowhere.
altar of discontinuities.
glacial psalm.
stonehenge, ozymandias, obelisk.
salt of the earth.
oblong edifice of imperturbability.
pillar of patience.
featureless rosetta stone.
testament to space and time.
satire has the shortest shelf-life.
romanticism has not left a footprint.
Gerald Locklin’s most recent collection is The Life Force Poems, Water Row Press, 2002. He has taught since 1965 at California State University, Long Beach.
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