seeing/saying

Saturday, November 9, 2013

No more

Are these

Elastic dreams

Of thread waxing

And the compact

Of pressing felt

By the children

Uneven

That may choose

To play

Within these

Lofty rooms

Making the place

An island streamed

Not content

A bed

To sit

Tom McGlynn

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Often a mind full

Shot and run

Taxes vain propriety

Coyly to re- load the gun

Bent to calm sobriety

Tom McGlynn

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

These gifts

Of live masks

Present

And accounted

For remaining

Absent

Seed and stand

In meadows

Staid fallow

Of their own

Gleaning

The thief

Of seasons

Gathers, rushes

In November

Russet

To the marrow

Hawk

Long in sight

And lasting

Over

Tom McGlynn

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

As it was

Our custom

To back up traffic

For a coffee and roll

Before delivering

The archives

It was supposed

They would not

Arrive on time

This block

We occupy

Will forever be

A memory

Our own

Tom McGlynn

Monday, November 4, 2013

I've taken ill

For all its worth

A failing heart

A sweaty berth

A swaying swoon

A wobbly knee

I've taken ill

What swell

Of me

Tom McGlynn

Stand together

Deep- heated dust

Behind the leavening stars

Arising of

Infernal froth

A blackening face

Of kerneled night

Housing

The ties

That bind

Us all

No matter

How dark

Recalls

The tide

As the solar

Winds

Don't really

Blow

Tom Mcglynn

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Share with me

Your missal

Friend

So that we

May burn it

At the end

Where prayer

Imparts

And paper

Rends

Tom McGlynn

Saturday, November 2, 2013

The rare thrush

Lay dead

With its eyes

Pecked

And beak open

Folded

To sing itself

Blind

To sleep

Tom McGlynn

Friday, November 1, 2013

Against those

Against those
Who hate to dream
Witness lamps are dewed
All sweetness flows
From welcoming
Love and hunger
Eating time

Damping ever slowly
A faithful morning flew

One to many

Refrains

Will kill

This chant

Uplifting

Before it's

Maiden

Is shaped out

Cut the lines

So this mooring

Won't get dancy

And silted up

With song

Way haul away

We'll haul away

Though

All the weigh

To sea

However many

Versus

Tom McGlynn