Thursday 20 May 2010

Hart Crane Homeward Bound (III)


Amast, a moist expectoration from the crow's nest

of imagination, hoist the sail Hart, allow its breadth

to cover and carry all the sins, in the absurd spit-fest

of wrongful indignation, foist this, the whale fart,

the fellow Melville, and an inclination toward taxonomy,

well this breach of conduct, born from going against

the metric rules, their ticker-tape, bunsen-burner

method from the laboured laboratory from the alchemy

of the poets of yore, demanding you click your shoe heels

to the tick and the tock of the iambic pentameter

The blubbery lines of the mock heroic, in padded cells

the poets maw at the classic, but let the sail envelope

the reading! We are bound for the jaws of Criticism

the long lurch of the lingering palm, sticky with

masturbation, Aye wanking off to the undercurrent

of the poem,

Avast, aghast, expectations in the Kurd's jest

of invagination, lost in the desert of delight Turkish

and Iraqi, the spoils of Empire couched in Ottoman

and English penchant for the halfspun pun, run on,

Caesura, abate, battle on, out of breath, the junk stills,

the abortion of the breeze, advocation of the cause,

instant coffee makes the convention for conversation

short, before it was darling be a hon and put the kettle

on, the analogy to poetry, here Hart, the true plainess

of the haiku rather than the wandering epic, it tells

us that a leaf is a leaf, an ant is an ant, oh the literalness

of the hexapodal philistine, the rule of mediocrity,

Welcome ! Hart to the 21st century, welcome indeed.

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