By Daniela
Date: 2002 Nov 19
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Poet Ears

The Prophets Speak To Poet Ears

listen one by one
the sound of the dove
in the sky
   it's head pointing
down

speak the sound
in your grasping hand
the dove flying in thick blackened polluted air
sticky chemical spray on pollinating daisy fields
yellow daisy sky

falling to the Hudson sea
a life likened to a suicide
the prophets speak to poet ears
as thoughts wobble in painters knees
kneeling, forgetting who he is


the dove's beak opened my ears
direction strings diagnosis
one by one
you stumble on the rock
of knowledge

it is not your sound, poet
it is your ears
this prophet speaks to you
your right twitching knee
your eyes painting and painting the ears