Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEINE SPLIT, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember / at that moment of waking | ||||||||
Remember, at that moment of waking, your swimming body divided into irritated halves, one floated up, the other, nude and undernurtured, scattered as it fell down insane and guilty, pretending to be the lower twin with the welded-in eyes of Gemini. Paris had a way: it came together as content in one of you -- which one, I don't know -- and as the merged, reflected image of Castor and Pollux. If color were sound you'd hear the bleak screaming of green. When you tried to silence the conflict, to yellow-and-blue it in dream, it burned an orange hole in your corpus collosum. The brackets beneath your vermis broke. Remember how silence itself reached its maximum in your central nervous system? The Seine flowing through Paris was the liquid that held your two floating bodies -- bloated and bobbing -- in its stormy vomit. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SYNCOPATED CAKEWALK by CLARENCE MAJOR REVELATION AT CAP FERRAT by CLARENCE MAJOR SAND FLESH AND SKY by CLARENCE MAJOR A GUY I KNOW ON 47TH AND COTTAGE by CLARENCE MAJOR AGING TOGETHER by CLARENCE MAJOR AT THE ZOO IN SPAIN by CLARENCE MAJOR ATELIER CEZANNE by CLARENCE MAJOR BALLROOM DARK by CLARENCE MAJOR |
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