酷我-北美枫

[anna]

Language fabricates intimates:
The very alphabet pledges incipient pleasantries –
to rollick in letters,
to kiss without kissing….

(Note the glib efficacy of the tongue
at lying;
or to indulge injurious prophesying;
or, wielding a battering-ram limerick,
to hurl a potentate off a pedestal.)

Keats, I come to you as a back-page spectre,
a wanton haunt,
my unidentifiable shadow
crossing over your lines,
to find in Thee –
beyond the grave’s beguiling caricature –
arborescent headstone –
Thy iconic Glamour
that cancels the grave’s purgatorial visibility.

Thou art never as marginal as a corpse,
but sprout poems like gilded lilies –
opaque ink jetting white sunlight –
la dolce vita of Liberty –
what flowers from your acreage –
as vast as the (Roman) alphabet…

[Roma (Italia) 15 février mmxiv]
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

Language fabricates intimates:
The very alphabet pledges incipient pleasantries –
to rollick in letters,
to kiss without kissing….

(Note the glib efficacy of the tongue
at lying;
or to indulge injurious prophesying;
or, wielding a battering-ram limerick,
to hurl a potentate off a pedestal.)

Keats, I come to you as a back-page spectre,
a wanton haunt,
my unidentifiable shadow
crossing over your lines,
to find in Thee –
beyond the grave’s beguiling caricature –
arborescent headstone –
Thy iconic Glamour
that cancels the grave’s purgatorial visibility.

Thou art never as marginal as a corpse,
but sprout poems like gilded lilies –
opaque ink jetting white sunlight –
la dolce vita of Liberty –
what flowers from your acreage –
as vast as the (Roman) alphabet…

[Roma (Italia) 15 février mmxiv]
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com