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Maxwell Bodenheim
Advice: A Book of Poems
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664097255
Table of Contents
RATTLE-SNAKE MOUNTAIN DIALOGUE
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A PAST AND PRESENT POET
ADVICE
ADVICE TO A STREET-PAVEMENT
Lacerated grey has bitten
Into your shapeless humility.
Little episodes of roving
Strew their hieroglyphics on your muteness.
Life has given you heavy stains
Like an ointment growing stale.
Endless feet tap over you
With a maniac insistence.
O unresisting street-pavement,
Keep your passive insolence
At the dwarfs who scorn you with their feet.
Only one who lies upon his back
Can disregard the stars.
ADVICE TO A BUTTER-CUP
Undistinguished butter-cup
Lost among myriads of others,
To the red ant eyeing you
You are giant stillness.
He pauses on the boulder of a clod,
Baffled by your nearness to the sky.
But to the black loam at your feet
You are the atom of a pent-up dream.