Re: Berryman (for Tim)

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 20:01:23 GMT, Randy Scop <"
rscop"@lanternslides.net> wrote in rec.arts.poems:



Peter J Ross wrote:


[...] A hoofed pikeman trots behind.
His pike's claw-hammer mocks - in duplicate, inverted -
The pocked, ribbed, soaring crescent of his horn.
A scapegoat aged into a steer; boar-snouted;
His great limp ears stuck sidelong out in air;
A dewlap bunched at his breast; a ram's-horn wound
Beneath each ear; a spur licked up and out
From the hide of his forehead; bat-winged, but in bone;
His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring
That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity -
This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleats
The herd back to the pit of being. [...]

- Randall Jarrell (from /The Knight, Death, and the Devil/)



THE METEORITE

Star, that looked so long among the stones
And picked from them, half iron and half dirt,
One; and bent and put it to her lips
And breathed upon it till at last it burned
Uncertainly, among the stars its sisters---
Breathe on me still, star, sister.

---Randall Jarell

Scaling small rocks, exhaling smog,
gasping at game-scents like a dog,
now light as pollen, now as white
and winded as a grounded kite -
I watched the lovers occupy
every inch of earth and sky:
[...]

- beginning of /Central Park/ by Robert Lowell


The first one to quote Mark van Doren loses. Heh.


PJ "there are two Rs in 'Jarrell'. Trust me on this." R :-)
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