The Normal Monster sings in the Green Sahara The voice and offal of the image of God make Celtic noises in these lyrical hells Hurricanes of reasoned musics reap the uncensored earth The loquent consciousness of living things pours in torrential languages The elderly colloquists the Spirit and the Flesh are out of tongue The Spirit is impaled upon the phallus Phoenix of Irish fires lighten the Occident with Ireland's wings flap pandemoniums of Olympian prose and satinize the imperial Rose of Gaelic perfumes - England the sadistic mother embraces Erin Master of meteoric idiom present The word made flesh and feeding upon itself with erudite fangs The sanguine introspection of the womb Don Juan of Judea upon a pilgrimage to the Libido The press purring its lullabies to sanity Christ capitalized scourging incontrite usurers of destiny in hole and corner temples And hang The soul's advertisements outside the ecclesiast's Zoo A gravid day spawns gutteral gargoyles upon the Tower of Babel Empyrean emporium where the rejector-recreator Joyce flashes the giant reflector on the sub rosa | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TIME AND THE PERFUME RIVER by KAREN SWENSON I, TOO by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES THE OTHER WORLD by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE THE THIRD OF FEBRUARY, 1852 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE VANISHERS by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER PARRHASIUS by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS THE LAST LOOK O' HAME by HEW AINSLIE |