Jack Hirschman
Prisoner
To stir to the stirring in the air
of the inspiration of l’autre
who is the infinite emptiness of biography
who is the Count of the Commune
and paradox of the doxy of fact
who is the parasang of the Song of Songs
written in hieroglyphs edged with
inscrutable camouflage
who is the dropsink into the mother’s
mouth which is both drowned and fish
and therefore infinitely permutable
like the arcanes of the Book of John
or the human figure who enters your room
with two angels when you are gone
and shifts the furnishings around
in a vengeance of an ecstacy for the poem
who is the sumtotal of the same subtle
bloodriver and shivering cold in the voltage
naked in the night’s crosslegged habit
of a horse that outfurlonged the longest buck
minted in the machinery it raised when
it reared the secret memory of its own burning
death snorting flames throwing blue vomits
of rum and white hair up
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