Homer the Great!
An African
Elegy
In the groves of Africa from their natural
wonder
the wildebeest, zebra, the okapi, the
elephant,
have enterd the marvelous. No greater
marvelous
know I than the mind’s
natural jungle. The wives of the Congo
distil there their red and the husbands
hunt lion with spear and paint Death-spore
on their shields, wear his teeth, claws and
hair
on ordinary occasions. There the Swahili
open his doors, let loose thru the trees
the tides of Death’s sound and distil
from their leaves the terrible red. He
is the consort of dreams I have seen,
heard
in the orchestral dark
like the barking of dogs.
Death is the dog-headed man zebra striped
and surrounded by silence who walks like a
lion,
who is black. It was his voice crying come
back,
that Virginia Woolf heard, turnd
her fine skull, hounded and haunted,
stopt,
pointed into the scent where
I see her in willows, in fog, at the river of sound
in the trees. I see her prepare there
to enter Death’s mountains
like a white Afghan hound pass into the
forest,
closed after, let loose in the leaves
with more grace than a hound and more wonder
there
even with flowers wound in her hair, allowing
herself
like Ophelia a last
pastoral gesture of love toward the
world.
And
I see
all our tortures absolved in the fog,
dispersed in Death’s forests, forgotten. I
see
all this gentleness like a hound in the water
float upward and outward beyond my dark hand.
I am waiting this winter for the more complete
black-out,
for the negro armies in the eucalyptus, for the
cities
laid open and the cold in the love-light, for
hounds
women and birds to go back to their forests and leave
us
our solitude.
OC
Kin 190: White Galactic Dog
I harmonize in order to love
Modeling loyalty
I seal the process of heart
With the galactic tone of integrity
I am guided by the power of timelessness.
Noosphere Pause Day 182 (19 x 2) of the 13 Moon year. It is the property of a divine intellect to be always intently thinking about the beautiful.*
*Star Traveler's 13 Moon Almanac of Synchronicity, Galactic Research Institute, Law of Time Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2014-2015.
Anahata Chakra
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