INTRODUCTION
From the trial of Goodwives Basset (Executed), Knapp (Executed), and
Mary Staples, Fairfield, Connecticut (1654)
CONTENTS
MOSHE BENARROCH
Father
WILL CLARK
Barefoot in the Dark
JANET BUCK
The Bathroom Scale
Condoms & Condolences
Waxed Floors & More
Clogs on Cobblestones
The Morphine Cloud
Unexpected Stones
Why's & Ways
DOUG TANOURY
Manhattan Night
Gloria
Autumn Inside Me
My Vision
A Walk Down Main Street
HAZEL KING
Heart of a Rose
FARZANA MOON
The Comet of Desire
GERALD ENGLAND
The Questioner
Destitute Woman
The Way Ahead
Poppies
In Deep
WALT PHILLIPS
Domestic Science
Gone Isn't Always Absolute
Odd Consolation
Weird Gladys
But Now
Segment of a Chronicle
Away
KLAUS J. GERKEN
Fragment of an Uncompleted Nemesis
POST SCRIPTUM
BRENT DUQUETTE
We All Escape From Wounded Soldiers
From the trial of Goodwives Basset (Executed), Knapp (Executed), and Mary Staples, Fairfield, Connecticut (1654) "Susan Lockwood on the disputed teats: "Susan Lockwood, wife of Robert Lockwood, being sworn and examined saith "as followeth, that she was at the execution of Goodwife Knapp that was "hanged for a witch, and after the said Knapp was cut down and brought "to the grave Goodwife Staples, with other women, looked after the teats "that the women spake of appointed by the magistrates, and the said "Goodwife Staples was handling of her where the teats were, and the said "Staples stood up and called three of four times and bid me come look at "them, and asked her whether she would say they were teats or no; if "these be teats, and she made this answer, no matter there were teats or "no, she had teats and confessed she was a witch, that was sufficient; "if these be teats, here are no more teats than I myself have, or any "other woman, or you either if you would search your body; this "despondant saith she said, I know not what you have, but for herself, "if any find any such things about me, I deserve to be hanged as she "was, and yet afterward she, the said Staples, stooped down again and "handled her, the said Knapp, very much, about the place where the "teats were, and several of the women cried her down, and said they "were teats, and then she, the said Staples, yielded, and said like "they might be teats." "In the name of 'Justice'" knows no bounds... K.G.
MOSHE BENARROCH Father ~~~~~~~ Father oh father it is now when time has changed every memory that I remember that a picture of you reminds me you were my father was I ever your son son of my mother father oh father it is now days before my son's barmizvah reminding me how much have I become like you trying to appease the mother of my children but not succeeding and ultimately leaving them to her hysterias father oh father just like you never there to give a hand when most needed but always there to show me something is wrong with these screams these ever changing laws imposed by mother never could understand what were the laws what was the logic only the screams and the strokes and your silence your voice of thick silence because there is no silence in this world father oh father dying from day to day imprisoned in a house arriving to a country you never understood and too old for that I am 38 yrs old now always counting years always numbers and at this same age you got married me I am already married oh poor pitiful me for fifteen years and have 3 children not wanting another one maybe because my ill brother my dead brother was the forth trying to save a ship before the shipwreck and drowning himself to save the others maladies are no coincidence sometimes they save families from the ultimate autodestruction Father oh father it is your grandson's bar mitzvah your grandson who bears your name you would have been proud of him maybe of me too though you were proud of me in your life not like mother always saying negative things and with any success "we'll see..." I remember how you said if you persist like you do you will make it I may be making it now though I feel no difference still feel underdogish as always as a jew between arabs as in the big family as in the small family and in Israel as a sephardi between ashkenazim father oh father farther oh farther did you take me with your silence more than mother pushing me? with your absence it was your way not agree it was your noble way to accept it was the way of a spoiled child only child to a mother who had 10 abortions after birthing you father oh father from being rich to dying half-poor but you had at least a kiss-death dying in your bed in your sleep feom a stroke and not in an hospital you always hated the Talmud counts 913 different deaths so even at that moment we are not equal still you suffered your emphysema for 5 years unable to walk for ten minutes and then the natural treatments and the fasts the improvement then you died when you were feeling better I called you the night before and you said that mother wasn't feeling too good she wasn't feeling too good and you were going to die that same night then when I arrived home I went to embrace mother and she pushed me away she always pushes me away when I try to show her my love and strangles me with hers when I try to keep some distance there you were in bed fifteen years ago covered and I didn't kiss you I couldn't see you I was afraid though you always had jokes about dying you always had jokes about everything but this was not a joke death is never a joke father oh father it was just two weeks later that I knew my wife was pregnant those were the days of love from then on we have not surmounted anything just accumulating problems as if marriage was a bank never lending money you would have liked that image and immediately say something about it and Maimonides or Ortega Y Gasset something not related at all just to show how much you loved them or that jewish german writer Stephan Zweig you admired so much I haven't read it yet some pages from a book at a friend's house coming to Israel and being treated like an eastern nobody and still being silent and noble and still traveling to Venezuela for three years trying to take us there exactly what I am thinking of doing then I don't do those things I can't believe I am finding the same solution were you running away from Israel your family life or your wife probably all of them father oh father I was there in Madrid on my way to Caracas and I was pushed to and fro mother from one side telling me to come back to Israel and go to the army and you telling me there'll be no problem to get a visa to Venezuela how close I was to be with you then and how far because I didn't believe you I didn't believe what you were saying about the visa now thinking of leaving Israel to save my son from the army and he telling me he wants to be a combatant for me the army was something inconceivable until I was there but truly I was never there these were three years in which I learned how not to be where I was maybe you taught me some about this too and three years later when you came back you were ill and broken by life by the decisions you took by the illness of your son and by your marriage you were sixty and you had no more will to live though still you remembered that some medium told you you would get rich at an old age no you didn't trying to sell some shoes the days you could work in a market whose laws you never understood whose language was strange to you you were nice where only force was admired honest where honesty doesn't mean anything and I helped you a bit then but it was too late still I caught you once or twice when the lungs were better smoking a cigarette just like that Shabbatt in Tetuan when I came to the bar looking for you and you quickly threw the cigarette and asked 'what are you doing here?' hoping I didn't see the cigarette knowing I did but I didn't say anything Father oh father farther and closer each day I live you were more human in my eyes that shabbatt you were my loving father although all the caresses seemed to come from mother and all your caresses seemed to go to sister father oh father excuse me for I have sinned I was too young to see all this insanity all this family illness all this pushing me pushing me toward places I never wanted to go I have learned all the ways to escape now from everything but I have not learned how to stop escaping how to be in the place I want to be so I don't have to escape I haven't learned yet to go my own way at my own pace with my own shoes at my own time still mother is there pushing me and my wife showing her discontent from one woman to another as if I should act in relation to them either agreeing or reacting will I ever find my own way father did you ever?...
WILL CLARK Barefoot in the Dark ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lookout. Lookout as hard as you can ahead Bend a stout line of lead weight forward and drag it abeam. Keep a steady lookout forward into this somber night. Begin each step into darkness with a pre-pictured result Contemplate each interval of fruit deferred to the Harpy's tooth... YOU... are the being on the threshold of an introduction to an unseen visitor and his unseen world... Do not be lured into the dark too fast Go slow and tarry not on any of your anguishing The fact behind your fascination is Locked in the secret code of your own mutability it hurts to know what is there, ahead in the dark, Death Row for a Cosmos Devotee denounced... Galileo put to death by a cocktail so grim as Hemlock! It is A Simple Play without a plot, Absurd at best and yet We plot and plot; and presuppose not and strain all posterior constructs of intent, and the unimplemented prototype of civilization is lost. crushed and broken under the foot of a dragon twisting and turning down main street; the death-throws of a reptile in agony The poison Lies are in the monster's imprint, unseen yet intimated.. While looking ahead in the dark and Walking barefoot. Walking barefoot in the dark 4 August 1998
JANET BUCK The Bathroom Scale ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For years, your eyes have been my bathroom scale-- I weigh too much. We both know that. Afraid that I'll bring the world down a step, rather than take it up a fraction of an inch, I have not told you the truth or shared my ghosts. My stump is a clenched fist with the wiggle of worms. Clover's poise is beards shaved that do not grow back when I stumble and fall. My gait is a prick in velvet flesh. I speak too loud. I sober trite. Crutches, chairs, and metal parts are trappings of my destiny, moved around with care and dread. To you, they're logs that scratch white paint. To me, just pretzels rolled in salt in a brown-bag lunch I didn't choose. In me, you see the zap of limits like a lobster plunged in a boiling pot. My body parts are cracked crab backs-- wash down shores and leave distress. Stitches and scars are giant weeds, cattails stranded in a ditch. I reach for wreaths of motion's gift despite the tics of thorns on blessed.
JANET BUCK Condoms & Condolences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My plastic leg is a radar check for deformity's wise. A condom of condolences that doesn't quite cut it when it comes to grace. When I limp in a room, I feel like a 747 landing on the runway of a kitchen table. Ignore broken plates in favor of discussing with will exactly where to plant a foot. Testing trust each time one goes down in a fall. Smiles are my second layer of insulation. Fake rubber here is a sheath that I borrowed from my father and bathroom scales of approval's eyes. A duffel bag packed with silent socks that have bitter dirt but work if they aren't wool washed "OOPS" shrunk by truth. I bake the dark like Toll House cookies. A private raven in a homemade cage. Brands of stubborn pain are gorillas with knuckles that drag the floor. I fluff fur; you buff nails.
JANET BUCK Waxed Floors & More ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ She wasn't the sort of woman who had booze on tap, took drugs to leave life, drove too fast, got crazy with men. She was Catholic, a nurse, and well behaved. Practiced rolling rosaries until their walnuts turned to smooth pecans, wondered, she did, why God gave her a miscarriage. When she spit that out, he handed her a little girl in the radar lock of pity-- lined up with a pile of bones deformed like gutted pumpkins long since knifed by Halloween. Infancy was a body cast that trapped them all. Pain bled universal here. She learned to swear in private times. Wished to cry but couldn't quite, like incense hanging in the air. Add to this, the fact she left. Just died. Cancer kicked her out of reach. Locked her out from loving away the pain her womb had coughed on counters of her husband's heart. What reason for this slice of fate? To buff and wax what does exist; pour concrete grateful every night and catch a flower in its sand. >From way, way up above the clouds, the answer writes itself in dirt with popped and flying word grenades from faucets of determined hands.
JANET BUCK Clogs on Cobblestones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My life and limbs, the missing parts, have always creaked and screamed alone. Laughter's siren--a diversion for a river's meat in regard to damming wrecks of fate, capsized dreams which all the stares are fixed upon. In airport halls, I'm set on fire. That metal wand slams private shame, catches fear, hooks it to a catheter. The mitigating circumstance that fed this writing satellite is how you hand my words umbrellas. Sunny skies of "matter" suns. Orbits of your eyes and ways confirm the justice of my path. Make agony a growing tree and tears an apple to be picked. Tonight in bed, I'll read you pain. We'll empty out the swollen bag. If a little girl once upon a midnight dreary barbecues her Barbie Dolls, she has that right, but she'll need help. The lotion you apply to sores is smooth like sliding bars of soap. I never knew, until we met, I had this license in my genes. If I'd known then what I know now (post-dumping ghosts upon the page) and had your love to see me through, I would have learned that clogs can kiss a cobblestone and water-ski on faithless bones.
JANET BUCK The Morphine Cloud ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zoom lens eyes move in and out as Slinkies on a countertop. Morphine clouds I can't ignore. Nausea's raisin and reason both stink bad. I wake removed. A year or more I think has slipped like dimes through pockets of will. This hospital gown is a brown-paper bag. I wad it up. Make plans to leave. They draw my blood through slats of scars that hang like shingles on a burning roof. Crutches are crucial. Metal spokes of nails in a cross of mortal proof no one in this world is a perennial shrub or a flower that drinks water without the roots of someone's love. Poetry and hospital meals at times like these taste the same as oatmeal puke, but I can't without tearing stitches that split from the inside out. The walker, I know, is a stepping stone; a bull's horn demanded by the burden of the fight; its bars, however, multiply. Brackets that I hate to use, reminding me of urgency. I turn my food tray upside-down, ostensibly by accident. The only way I see to scream. I write all day to stab the night.
JANET BUCK Unexpected Stones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The jewelry box you left held unexpected stones: lapis, brass, and muted jade. You were white, impressively so. I am yellow and moan too much. One plain gold band in silver subtle. The sparkle of rubies in a circle of pearls. Old age was always there like algae on a rock at sea. Cancer cells and tumors of time stole your outward, but the inner remained like the pink, pink watermelon it always was. Faith stayed put--a sonnet transcending death's green slug. "A funeral IS OUT!" you always said. As if you could change its fact at that stage of lifeless, so we laughed until our stomachs ached. Even then, you got your way. The money you left would lead a logical mind to assume you'd hoard a cave of diamonds and its corners could be traded in for a Noah's flood of cash. It made me happy you drove a jalopy, spoiled your cats 'til they whined in a chorus, preferred a park bench to snare drums and tubas and grand parades.
JANET BUCK Why's & Ways ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Before clouds and hurricanes-- self dissected on slides of paper pertinence-- I'd have called you crazy if you'd told me there were ways and why's to thank an amputated leg. But lesson bricks are lava beds without a choice. Missing parts, like radio's Rap, catch eye and ear--thunder spinning mortal silly in manners hard to finger with knowledge and reason. Headdress difference dancing around curious flames; human is afraid to touch but feels the grave like thick, thick air. I've never believed in signs from God, but this a.m. I sat at a stoplight in the cleaving rain. On the stripe between lanes lay a Barbie Doll: face down and removed from some girl's life. Pink pink wax in rinds that tires had pounded hard and left. She wore nothing but jet black hair: two arms, two legs, in tact but dead. My dragon, my symbol slayed-- a myth emerging from its homemade dark. I, on the other hand, was alive and sensed my mission to box with lies.
DOUG TANOURY Manhattan Night ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Manhattan skyline rises With gun-barrel grayness Above hard streets of dull Pavement and sidewalk where Glittering crystalline sparkles Speckle the concrete surface On a summer night it wears Blue neon like a sequin dress And walks slowly on porcelain legs That balance in stiletto heels and Carry a form without softness Through the cold white moonlight
DOUG TANOURY Gloria ~~~~~~ Voice bunched and mixed Together like cut flowers In Spring And I am awed by what Comes forth from Gloria What life Is born what thoughts Arise from a word of praise That echoes Now in my chest and Pulses through my veins The light Reflected in my eyes A gesture and spoken Word And the soft sound of one Mountain moving toward The hills.
DOUG TANOURY Autumn Inside Me ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I pick a pear from a branch Hanging low And take a small bite Just to test the taste It is sweet So the second And all subsequent bites Are larger It is cool after sunset I no longer walk Barefoot on the blacktop In comfort It is a marble floor Against my soles I eat the pear Seeds and all And only the stem is left To twirl between thumb And forefinger As I wish I had plucked two From the tree With branches Hanging so low I walk in darkness Just after sunset Without A remnant of light On the horizon Black Is the color Of fall nights I have tasted the season On my lips Across my tongue And there is no doubt It is autumn Inside me
DOUG TANOURY My Vision ~~~~~~~~~ In my vision of the future I have shed denial And offer no more explanations with open palms No more accountings and questions and the voice Of suspicion and interrogation are no longer Whispered in a dreamer's ear for I am reborn In new freedom I am acquitted of crimes Imagined where I sneak off to fornicate Before dinner and each shopping trip becomes Torrid interlude with strange women with breast That taste like salt and smell of sweat Confronted with fantasy facts and the dark Physics of a world imagined a shadow me Lives alternate lives never enjoyed and Grows weary in a universe of infinite lies And laws of science too complex to grasp With relationships the fabrics of which are Confusing and enigmatic to a reasonable man So let me be undisturbed and unbothered And escape the duplicity and the onus Of innumerable oaths and overlooked proofs To awaken now enlightened to the point Where I can drive all night in August moonlight And smoke unfiltered cigarettes in a chili-pepper-red Convertible where the tachometer ticks off RPM's And the odometer runs backwards
DOUG TANOURY A Walk Down Main Street ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's Sunday morning, And I'm walking Down Main Street Between East Third And East Fourth. The sky is clear and The sun is 30 degrees On the eastern horizon Between the two and Three o'clock positions. The light is bright With shadows deep and And streets quiet And mostly empty Like a Hopper painting. I walk on the sunny side, Which is the western, Washed in light and Cast a long shadow with Lanky arms that sway.
HAZEL KING Heart of the Rose ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dark red velvety petals Curling slowly backwards Towards the outside edge As though stretching As the day dawns awakening new life. Dew dripping slowly downwards A few drops glistening in the morning sun Like priceless jewels twinkling With each breath of air whispering across the rose. The fragrance of this flower beyond compare - Man has sought to copy it, but cannot, No matter how hard he tries. The touch of the leaves silky smooth To sensitive fingertips, Like a lover's skin fresh from a warming shower And glowing under her partner's caress. And nestled in the centre Hiding beneath the petals As though acting as a protector, A soft bed of pollen laden fingers Waiting for industrious bees to touch down, To carry on the life of this glorious flower. One can become lost in it's depths, Forgetting time, Bathed in it's aroma, Pondering on the beauty In the heart of this rose.
FARZANA MOON The Comet of Desire ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The dust of perdition I have tasted in my thoughts Many a moons When abysmal days And bright nights Journey forth like wildfire Inside the delirium of my existence When stars burn low In eyes adorable Slashed with burning commands To banish Psyche From the hearth of Muse The comet of my desire Torn and bleeding Vanishes itself Self-exile, banishment The island of torment One ether thought Thunders still Desire is sin Love is not
GERALD ENGLAND The Questioner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He questioned all the time, sought the source of sustenance It was not that he had none, although he had none They could have driven him away but they did not, because of his questioning, because they were willing to be generous They all answered him - if you are short of food, take, share ours - It was not that they had it to spare It was not that they were being generous It was rather they wished to fill his mouth with food to put a stop to his questioning
GERALD ENGLAND Destitute Woman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After Pablo Picasso (Art Gallery of Ontario) The woman is seated leaning almost against the blankness of the wall She is covered entirely in her cloak Her eyes are closed in sleep her pale face tilted From the closeknitted brow runs her sharp bone nose to a tight mouth that is not smiling Her hands are closed beneath her cloak She remains here nearly sleeping Her tiredness is what binds her to the world which itself is closed in tiredness to her
Gerald England The Way Ahead ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (for Vivienne) For him the dance is done despite continued clattering of guns What matters now is not the point nor mode of death - only the life that went before You have to feel your grief And you have to live beyond to keep the memory but loose the sense of loss Even in your solitary time you are not alone, my love He and I and we, we all are one The mystery will remain unsolved for we who have yet more to live All endings are but a passing on First Published Leeds & Harrogate Graphic (1980)
GERALD ENGLAND Poppies ~~~~~~~ (for Edward Thomas) Unrisen the early mower only the all night lit windows hint of humanity in gardens where an indolent owl flies sleepwalking in the misty joy past the church by the green to the highporched barn of a deserted farm It alone gives life to the doorless stables and cumbered stalls The weathervane fox is rusted south never telling of the hateful east the rainy west or crude north wind Luxuriant nettles, tall tansy fleabane, dandelions, hawkweeds testify to anxious labourers leaning on plough or scythe or hoe to watch the hounds or a carriage go by Not fifty yards away beyond a shadowy corner seen in the broad halflight before sunrise the crimson of uncountable poppies enmeshed with thoughts of mist pearl desirable as an Italian illusion having the serene strange beauty of a woman born of summer air Yet half an hour would have seen them reaped To have come thus far and know the distance less to be less than the equal of a poppy - how else retain the courage still to voyage on ? The poppies still shine and from his tower of ivory yet does the blackbird sing First Published: East & West Literary Qtly (USA)
GERALD ENGLAND In Deep ~~~~~~~ there were several entrances indeed there were several holes some holes were inside other holes possible exits were only ends with little room for turning or else they led to other holes there were ways out but only for the slim and fit or the very fat and strong
WALT PHILLIPS Domestic Science ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ you should never have been a family man she said i did a few dance steps reminiscent of a pow-wow i had seen in 1990 you're such a baby she said i did cute goo goo sounds she tried not to smile at that point things can really turn testy so i decided once more never never again would i ever ever again complain aloud about having to accommodate this whole world less me
WALT PHILLIPS Gone Isn't Always Absolute ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ he died and i found it not easy to believe the influence hung around and hung around to some degree like a bully i'd grown to admire
WALT PHILLIPS Odd Consolation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ chance plays favorites but obliteration doesn't
WALT PHILLIPS Weird Gladys ~~~~~~~~~~~~ around and around the senior complex she walks staying in shape for some reason
WALT PHILLIPS But Now ~~~~~~~ a war happened here but now it is quiet the evening shadows play about the face of time ma kelly never knew this ground her charlie's once a year at this spot certain of the old salute the young they might have stayed
WALT PHILLIPS Segment of a Chronicle ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ it is suddenly eighteen-fifty in years a man in a tall hat steps off a train in the midwest "something historical will happen today" he declares whereupon the townspeople pack him off by buckboard to the looney bin at the state capitol and in the confusion fail to see the evangelists cavorting naked in the skies
WALT PHILLIPS Away ~~~~ the bus came and she got on and it went away moving moving and the planet kept moving and the years kept moving and suddenly absolutely everything okay was gone forever except in his going going head
KLAUS J. GERKEN A Fragment of an Uncompleted Nemesis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The great affair is over But where did it begin If silence must be golden Then speaking was the sin He could not separate himself From what the past had wrought She could not reconcile herself To the battles that he fought These lovers somehow never knew How they destroyed themselves With passion on their fingertips And commitment on the shelf Each one thought they tried so hard And each refused to bend Ultimately neither held The future in their hands. 1986
BRENT DUQUETTE
We All Escape From Wounded Soldiers
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We all escape from wounded soldiers
from their scabs and jagged knives
from their misspent intrusions,
broken dreams and
watery eyes.
We rest when we reach the woods,
count our nylons,
Hershey bars
and lies.
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