[lit-ideas] Inspired by Heidegger

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:58:16 -0600

MY PHILOSOPHICAL POEM


Poetry is all about Time.
Like that time I
almost stepped out of my
self
and broke into blossom,
like Richard Wright
thought about doing
that time.
You know,
with the horse
in the field
with the soft nose
-- the horse,
not the field,
had the nose 
that was soft --
yes, just like that time
when Richard Wright was
standing
at the fence
patting the horse's nose
and it was so uncanny,
the damp softness of it,
that he knew
that if he
could step out of his body
he would break into blossom,
but God said:
"Stay inside your body, boy!"
Still and all Richard Wright 
knew that he was 
right
and God was wrong,
knew that he had touched on 
a deep truth
this 
yearning to be
outside
his 
body:
a flowering of pure being.
But then the horse 
snorted phlegm 
all over him
ever so 
authentically.

We move on.


Mike Geary
Memphis, Tennessee

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