Allegory of the Lion
Part 1
he's god
booning commander
and earth is open
Part 2 and 3
he was dead
motionless in a vault
like a shepherd
The Whale's Nature
no fish is so firm
as its image
tilling the sea upsets nothing
there are no cuts
when a lawn becomes
not a location
but a direction
this is like a whale
dilluting the small task
of its capture
Allegory of the Whale
they kindle a fire on the marvel of tinder it rests
precipitately loathe the disembarkation that's rest
and so
straightway rejoice, eat and drink and sink
into whatever hold or cushion
without wound until what season
when summer and winter contend
sucks in all those beguiled fish
while the weather can't stay as bad
as that
the floor of the sea
is the greatest tarrying mouth
that could swallow us
but instead has swallowed unbelievably, sweetly
the whale
The Mermaid's Nature
bunches of em, wholly a fish even though
you know
like a shipwreck of the body, why
any ruined sailor
would accept this fate is baffling
talk about mal de debarquement
it's like Guest, “into whose confidence
I have wandered”
don't stand for it, guy!
gurgling, varied water
know to avoid, wonder
is this really someone you want
to be talked piously to, as example
whose navel is already site
to such discursive quiet
it confuses you
or like Bernstein, “values like the butter”
and you like the idea of her?
Allegory of the Mermaid
the outside can serve
without service
what is betokened
in sturdy memory
undone
by what's before you
tone they deceive
quiet they deceive
all of sacrament
The Elephant's Nature
Indian, big, burly, mountainous
they are like sheep
to see one topple
is to witness a nightmare
and relive it not just in but in the act
of sleep
in mud unable to move
broad lengths of chastity
chastity is an elephant
Allegory of the Elephant
suffering wants to raise up power
to get off itself
suffering is the scab
growing to discontinuity
with the skin
so is the elephant on earth
and we on an elephant
an estuary elevated
its peace lumbering on if toward quick
ening we
cannot see the mouth
The Dove's Nature and Allegory
inverted precept
perception of worms, seed, bile
she is landed on America
nothing
as excellent
easily stirred
brought
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