Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SYMPATHETIQUE, by JANE MILLER


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First Line: The magnetic moonlight
Last Line: The temptation is to stand out in a june rain and enjoy it for itself
Subject(s): Love; Relationships


The magnetic moonlight
the metallic moonlight
I turn up the thermostat on Dodge
February zero & I down a Special Export
You're out confirming the dimmer switch an all-night light
an alkaline moon a chemical moon

The graveyard stones name several unrelated Millers
three blocks from Dodge I bussed past them in a blizzard
this early evening with the children from the retarded school
down the street the street snowed in like a canal
A case like Van Gogh is impossible today
there's a filter on the sun
the snarled moon the journalistic moon
I am a sentimental lover
who would sit through a storm to paint the horizon
the charcoal moon the whey moon

Driving your car after your evening engagement do you feel glamorous
you are and I can't wait to touch your face and neck
who would lie down and love the earth and the earth tones
your dark auburn hair to the shoulder and your creamy belly below
rosy white
Above all else the figure the figure in the landscape
In church? even in church the figures in church
the potato moon the moon of the poor
Vincent punk Vincent victorious Vincent the bohemian Vincent the great
But I want it to make sense it's about love
I want to announce that each time we go down on each other tenderly
we learn something we
hike out in late autumn or early spring before really
the earth's opened up hands stiff embracing three paint tubes blue red yellow

earth in the cemetery minerals like jewels
and I don't think How bad is the pain?

It's portable it was born in February green red black yellow blue brown gray
The temptation is to stand out in a June rain and enjoy it for itself





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