poem: quaint missionaries
(The first lines were straight from the Google ad popping up on my YouTube video: yes, it stopped at car . . . )
Become a personal trainer
Get ISSA certified,
turn your passion into your
Car, a velvet backseat
kind of passion
foggy windows
Condensation wracks
the van gogh in your fingers
flesh for a sainted
bloom that wiles
your wily fishy soul. I trained
in the withering light,
cold air biting
the night's dreams you
were there & there was
an afterlife of missing persons.
I trained for this
in the past lives
of gravel roads, lucindas
gaining ground as you
sow what reaps blessings
from the drunken boats:
sift your mercies
for the turtle bays,
a dying grace fells
the womb in you,
tinsel-gathering
through all the seasons of you
down the quiet streets
down the carnivaled alleys
down the avenue of trees
was the first in them all,
was personal training the vast
crowds at your disposal
was fashioning bliss
the least bit on
your yeasty mind?
I grant you
the quaint missionaries
in their murmuring
toss-offs:
theirs are missiles
firing through the mist,
& I, well,
I,
I, can no farther
round than
this smattering of
this.
Become a personal trainer
Get ISSA certified,
turn your passion into your
Car, a velvet backseat
kind of passion
foggy windows
Condensation wracks
the van gogh in your fingers
flesh for a sainted
bloom that wiles
your wily fishy soul. I trained
in the withering light,
cold air biting
the night's dreams you
were there & there was
an afterlife of missing persons.
I trained for this
in the past lives
of gravel roads, lucindas
gaining ground as you
sow what reaps blessings
from the drunken boats:
sift your mercies
for the turtle bays,
a dying grace fells
the womb in you,
tinsel-gathering
through all the seasons of you
down the quiet streets
down the carnivaled alleys
down the avenue of trees
was the first in them all,
was personal training the vast
crowds at your disposal
was fashioning bliss
the least bit on
your yeasty mind?
I grant you
the quaint missionaries
in their murmuring
toss-offs:
theirs are missiles
firing through the mist,
& I, well,
I,
I, can no farther
round than
this smattering of
this.
Labels: sequential murmurs
8 Comments:
I was thinking more of "We made love in my Chevy van..."
Great poem. I loved the term "yeasty mind". It makes me think of a brain expanding with fermented ideas.
Teresa: Definitely a fer-/de-mented mind.
Are you implying that I am crazy?!?! You're probably just a little bit right.
That bifurcated comment was directed at the poet.
LOVE the progression of :turn your passion into your car to velvet backseat lol...the next lines bring back much ahem, younger days....
mercies for the turtle bays - now I have a picture of a bay full of floating logs, turtles all lines up to catch the warmth of the sun. They train for sticking their heads back in their shells...a good idea these days (if they don't get repossessed)
quaint missionaries firing murmurs at the mist? another reason to keep your head in your shell, boys!
This smattering went pretty far if you ask me, and you didn't so I will hush now...pink martini's sound very un-turtle-ish...
Dee: Younger indeed, though those windows do still fog up, don't they? I know the segue to Pink Martini is a bit stretched, but there is a glammy love song lurking somewhere in those lines . . .
I had no idea this song was in Gilda. Probably a classic I should add to my to-see list :)
Personal training the vast crowds - ahah, I'd like to see how that goes.
DM: Think morning jazzercise in St. Peter's Square.
I haven't seen Gilda, but China Forbes rocks this song. (And many others . . .)
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