October 2000 | back-issues, poetry, William B. Hunt
[b]”The World Moves On the Back of a Turtle”[/b]
(Old rabbinical saying)
Arrange Suzan’s ribbons in a thousand ways–there is time, for the world moves on the back of a turtle! See how reluctantly sunlight and shadow move each day up and down sidewalks. You have time to tell of your love, carefully to mention each article of it, for the world moves on the back of a turtle. You have time to listen to a child’s mind growing, and very much time to comprehend and observe how each of a flower’s petals is formed. You would rush your words, you would have to rush them, if it were any different.
October 2000 | back-issues, poetry, William B. Hunt
Blue shadows all over the Berkshires. The sea of evening is sad, a star burnt out. The wild forest may wash away like darkness. What is the black leaf of October? What is the bronze chain that holds the darkness to the wet lilac of madness? Coffee at the studio. The world’s interiors. Full moon night and our amorous goodbyes. Ultimate green leaves. Blue night sleeps in my eyes like the madness of cellos. The mountain Hovhaness sang has left its titanic footprints upon me. That which the ocean has forgotten colors October Mountain and makes music on the horizon.
October 2000 | back-issues, poetry, William B. Hunt
How experimental is the wet moon, how expansively laid before you, super-troubador! How like Lisa is the hour of the footprints of red steel left beside the Mekong River! Every friendly mountain is blushed with mushrooms on a blue night. Small, icy waterfall, the Yahwist rain, talk the cellos through the interiors of your golded poem. Brooks echoing primary colors, you stop on the shell light, the twisted conch. Strong dog, say goodbye to the evening, the warm hearts of mysticism and beef. Phillipines, vary your music, disregard these variations. Opinions will structure their own variations. These circles force truth.
October 2000 | back-issues, poetry, William B. Hunt
She stretches tautly, vigorously for tournament, yet her hair is soft and her features are perfect. Her eyes say peace. Her character is stalwart and her intelligence is real. She’s got the figure adorable. Ruffled hair she wears casually. Her quizzical looks are friendly. There is a brassy perfection in her voice, a grasp of the issues. The light blends well with her complexion. She does not bend her head far from the vertical. She quietly questions our world. I’ll describe her motions in rouge on white stock paper. Two or three lines can describe her appearance, friendly to consider.
October 2000 | back-issues, poetry, William B. Hunt
Limeade on my tongue, and your heartbeat and your hair my feast, you barefoot girl innocent among spearmint leaves. Let us sleep and wet each other down with kisses until my fingers touch you and search for you more deeply, and your heartbeat and your gold hair press upon me. All I have left is a rusted heartbeat and a mind. I will give you a blue feel for love rated R, rated X. This is the dust of dense words undamaged by wind that sucks fruit for the blue symbols found in it. Just give me dense red rain.
