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The Layman's Phoenix
Contributed by
screwge
on
Sunday, 5th April 2009 @ 05:57:36 PM in AEST
Topic:
abstract
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I could paint a phoenix;
With Tuscan pigments, I could affix
A graffito to the sky.
His fetish is the rebound;
His feathers lack that nuance—
Heavyset in the southwest, where he is extant in the hacienda style.
But he is wispy or bulky in the Orient,
Black pen or a wedge of kite.
In the former, there is no context. But if you ask a child,
He is high on the unending scroll.
And though the latter is a clod,
Schoolboys hope, lost in hypothetical bliss, that their effigies
Might meet the real deal when
Flown at the right shade of dawn.
But I—
I could stack a phoenix
Out of bricks,
Who could not rise.
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screwge
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2009-04-05 17:57:36] (Date/Time posted on
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