Harry Crosby Floor Poems

  • 1.
    what was the moment of coition like?
    come Zariba let down your gates
    turn turtle all you captives of the flesh

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  • 2.
    I exchange eyes with the Mad Queen.
    The mirror crashes against my face and bursts into a thousand suns. all over the city flags cracle and bang. Fog horns scream in the harbor. The wind hurricanes through the window. Tornadoes are unmuzzled as I begin to dance the dance of the Kurd Shepherds.
    I stamp upon the floor. I whirl like dervishes. Colors revolve dressing and undressing. I lash them with fury stark white with iron black harsh red with blue marble green with bright orange and only gold remains naked. I roar with joy.
    Black-footed ferrets disappear into holes.
    ...
  • 3.
    Why should I be subsevient to fate
    Si peu de chose before a giant world
    Poor little ship with little sail unfurled
    To catch the sun-breze at the harbor gate?
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  • 4.
    Moon of leaves,
    Moon of the falling leaves,
    To you I bring the slippers
    of the sun.
    ...
  • 5.
      I exchange eyes with the Mad Queen

      the mirror crashes against my face
    and bursts into a thousand suns
    ...
Total 5 Floor Poems by Harry Crosby

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