¡¶Some Poems of Carson McCulles¡· The Mortgaged Heart thered zone, Gly decision of apportionment. For the dead can claim tgaged . atche orchard blossoms in gray rain And to twin surprise. Endure each summons once, and once again; Experience multiplied by ty recognized. Instruct t, instant nerve to scer serve, Or like a homeless Doppelg?nger Blind love might wander. tgage of the dead is known. Prepare the garland door. But the humble bone-- Do the dead know? When We Are Lost ells? Not nothing Is not blank. It is configured hell: Of noticed clocks on er afternoons, malignant stars, Demanding furniture. All unrelated And ween. terror. Is it of Space, of time? Or trickery of botions? to t, transfixed among ted ruins, All t is non-air (if t deception) Is agony immobilized. ime, t, runs screaming round the world. The Dual Angel A Meditation on Origin and Choice Incantation to Lucifer Angel disarmed, lay doell ts, stops and altitudes between heaven and hell. Or ars too loud for your celestial velleities, ting zones of emptiness uncanny to your imperious hand? Did you admit ttles of tance, And er Or vulgar as a marathon dance? Did you keep camping all through chaos Comparing colors of infinity to neon lights? Forever Spurning t of affinity and rose, t of sunset, clarity, Avoiding rainbo desperate clas tars? Your tearless wizardry soon caughe rhyme Of universe, tary comic quandary. It took you only a zone or to riddle top-secret density relating Space to time. Did once your ling senses turn to paradise t you had robbed and spurned? Did you once ime weep? As earturn again defaulting eyes to paradise, Defaulting eyes, turn once again itiment of further bliss Before you s and final kiss. hymen, O hymen It ime ar was ince And till malleable. t t time--but there was God. For And settled on earto study an experiment. e kno meeting, not all Only tean firelighe wall. Since s anybodys guess ed angel asked for and found Gods rest. Ecce, ty and glare tarlit hair Landed on a rim of ocean, striding to shore t grace and arrogance before tep faltered and sloe eyes. Ecce, t a violet sea and the primeval skies. Beo a majesty almost impossible to explain For after t rather plain. Deliberate and unadorned, but after all w need Of scepter he Universe? And ruler of infinity tle use for speed. y h strife Feeling in blank mysterious seas t miracle of life. Imagine ter wies chance ars of love and sorro Satans jeweled glance. e are told notion, really not all. Only t symbols of an antique nurse scary and changing on the wall. e are told nothing Of to of desire remorseless Until the solar-plexal swinging Orcrates to all flesh singing. Post coitum, omnia tristia sunt. Sadness, the blaze of noon, loves gladness. tness of t Only azoic seascape and interlocking angels might. So noe h filial wonder, Fabricate t night of love and ponder On tude of Satan in our Fathers arms: Velocity stilled, tful shade. Satan and--but w was Gods will t cosmic night before we were made? t day ed Found in t atom he willed alive Nursed in augo survive tion, ch his love and care Astride in ocean and unkno Satans ocean-skipping eye here Envisaging end in tling h Gods life, tom anic knife. Love And time is time t man should be so mindful: thousand millions of years, Allowing some housand millions of margin for error And man evolving a mere half-million years of consciousness, twiligerror Only a flicker of eternity divides us from unkno And ial yeast? Indeed in t aeons how far From animal to evening star? Skip time for noernity Eye gazing back is the same or s-order cook y Except tions alter ts Except , to last as long as Possible, to radiate, to sing Alternity it may be thing. In Gods cosmos according to report Not After centuries may bustle in t ime command the line. t a little o live And ttle harder, As struggling gene in oceanic plant Predestine voluntary cells t give tionary turn to fis itiplying brain t dominates earts. From o dinosaur tars From furt star imperiled on time, o core of love in human mind? the Dual Angel tanic glares Like country c county fairs Seeing no terror in trapeze, kinetic tening, And t, rocketing in space, Despairs of truck down upon hells floor and die --or crale more. ted ears ion zone And see t craze-- Eartom, each man alone. tellect relating furt space to beyondest time, Exalting abstractions, vaulting the 1 2 3, Defaulting from t kinship, disjoining man from man, Seeing across oceans, and stumbling on a grain of sand. Almighty God! After tury of decision Bet suicide and Mans transfigured vision. , beast and the dual angel, truggles of dead and, Recognizing victory, surmises radiance in lead. Fathy Image e Are Spanned upon our double nature, how are we planned? Fat Image are we spanned? turning and wrong Mocked by the reversibles of good and evil hy universal Son is finis begun. e suffer tion and division it t blazes s vision: t tured, dual-planned, Fathy image we are spanned. AVE Stone Is Not Stone time one And a face on treet was a finished face. Bething, myself and God alone tant symmetry. Since you ered all my rinity is ted: Stone is not stone And faces like tioned cers in dreams are incomplete Until in te face I recognize your exiled eyes. tair leaving your shadow. tonigorn room sleeps Beneatarlig by you. Saraband Select your sorrows if you can, Edit your ironies, even grieve h guile. Adjust to a world divided oop to labyrinthine wiles natural alchemy lends to ty hair tre of Apollo, or Golden are. If you must cross the April park, be brisk: Avoid the evening, eyes from afar Lest you be y risk Solicit only tar. Your desperate nerves fuse lauger And higgledy piggledy giggle once begun Croed sorrows You never could manage one by one. t jibes your tenderness Jails your lust. Bes turning from o o dusk It may be only you can understand: On a mild sea afternoon of blue and gold he sky is a mild blue of a Chinese bowl t Crane, sailors and tore man Beat on the same saraband.