INTRODUCTION
Klaus J. Gerken
CONTENTS
Michael Collings
10 Sonets
Jack R. Wesdorp
Knight Station
POST SCRIPTUM
Jack R. Wesdorp
The Traveller
Somehow it doesn't seem relevant anymore: listening to "Love Me Do" by the
Beatles (for those post 60's generation) on stereo speakers attached to a
computer. I remember just a desk, a book shelf and a majestic portable
radio with great mono sound. That's what these records were created for.
No, not even nostalgia, I can't quite get into it. I know all he words,
all the tunes, but it somehow isn't revenant to this commuter generated
fast food society. The guitar rifts aren't in sync with the beeps on my
computer; although jolly (and yes I mean 30 years ago they were relevant
and important...now they are just jolly...) they just don't seem to
relate. TV was young then, and without TV the Beatles and (even) The Rolling
Stones would have worn out in a year or two. These were the first mass
produced groups. Elvis spread mostly newsreel-wise (post WWII newsreels), but
the Beatles were immediate. Sputnik created them. There was no looking
back. Youth couldn't "hide" as they wrote in "I Wanna Hold Your
Hand"...and they never did again. It changed the world. But how much was
it the Beatles or the Rolling Stone or any of the other 60's groups out
there? The Beatles rough Hamburg leather clad thugs were presented as
clean cut kids and George Martin made certain their music would sound
the way it did. The Rolling Stones on the other hand were the clean cut
suit wearing art students who were presented as an "alternative life
style" and to the disdain of every parent (even though they had educational
cedentials--the Beatles did not)...but that is the beginning of mass
communication, mass advertising, mass deception. And to this day we hold
on to that image. I find today's groups much more visible and accessible
(though less interesting)..now the groups and entertainers are
commercials. In the 60s they still were individual even though mass
marketed. But it was their individuality and relevance which was mass
marketed, and not their 60 second viability. It's a different world for
sure. The internet has made everything accessible and nothing left
mysterious. The 60s still had the mystery of radio and black and white tv
where viewers had to use their imagination to fill in all the blanks: and
we could concentrate on the music. Today MTV has given us all the
images, everything we can't imagine. This is how it is. This is what the
music is. Accept it. No room for compromise. And we still think we are
free. Those who think to differ are vilified. And those who agree
socialized. Socialized...recall that term? It use to be used by us to
describe communism. Now it describes our "democratized" youth...The
youth who is given everything. The youth who cannot think without being
told what to think. Can't do math? Use a calculator. And if you want to
be a diva; why, just yodel, screech or exercise those vocal cords...and
if that doesn't work shake that perfect plastic surgery engineered belly
button and you'll do ok...and we wonder why those Arabs hold us in
disdain. John Lennon is still right when he screamed "Help Me Help Me
Help Me please"....it was lost at the time...but it describes us perfectly
almost 40 years on and we haven't learned a thing. I guess to not forget
the only prophet the United States ever had, Bob Dylan, "The times they
are a changin'". Unfortunately no one changed with them, except maybe the
technology no one has found the wisdom yet to handle.
Klaus J Gerken
26 Mar 2003
MICHAEL COLLINGS
Nobbled as an Eagle's Claw
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So Butch and I bunked our gear into
The Bomb--Dad's faded turquoise '53--
Stowed packs and bedrolls beneath the ragtop
And drove to the Sacramento River.
Tire-treads nobbled as eagle-claws crunched
River rock--we stopped--hauled gear to the beach--
Cleared a likely spot to settle in--pitched
Our tent--arced a fire pit into reach.
That day--the next--we talked, ate fire-roasted
Hotdogs--hiked bare-chested through chest-high weeds
Clogged with webs--swam naked in icy waist-
High ripples--talked through twilight's gravid fade--
The car--now rusted shadow--the shore--
Tamed and condoed--and Butch, no more--no more.
Grandmother Collings' Church-house in Jerome
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Grandmother Collings' church-house in Jerome--
Angular, imposing, brittle, cold--
Harsh walls of rough-cut iron-gray stone
Swallowed light. One window soared, winter-gold....
That's all I remember, fifty years
Long since--no words, no music from organ
Or choir, no hidden rustle as chairs
Shifted. Nothing but one dark wall-span,
One translucent window vault...and tiny
Glass communion cups nestled in long
Silver trays--glass so thin, so clarified
It seemed one brash thoughtless breath, one wrong-
Ways glance could shatter it...pierce my palm
With blessŠd water that else would be balm.
In Elba the chapel was light
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In Elba the chapel was light. Great swatches
As textured as grosgrain ribbons fell
On honey-grained pews, draped rough-stone patches,
Layered pale organ-keys with a warm pall
That softened the breath of pipes. Latches
Gleamed mute reverence; ceiling and rails
Glowed golden-arced eternity. Sachets
Breathed glory to and from embosomed walls.
Grandmother Hurd watched over us, saw all:
Whispered impatience as the hour dredged past,
Scuffled mutters of Sunday shoes on wood,
Muscles tensing for closing-prayer pell-mell
And voracious urge to break our fast--
Young souls o'erfilled, young bodies faint for food.
On a Display of Swordsmanship
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Toes flat-tensed on drab commercial-grade
Celedon, in jeans and T you swing
blue steel--hook sharp fingers as if to rape
raw blighted stars ricketing in pain--
forearm hedgerow-tendons flail to harvest
rebel blood--flash from field to grave between
heartbreath beats.
Silent silver weaves its
artifice of light, conjures Babylon,
Ur, Egypt's dust-hagged Magic--warriors' arms
quivering beneath dead weight--brass, iron,
electrum's silver-gold brash against far-
rising suns--heaving, brittle, hack-hewn lungs--
pummel naked everlasting Glory
beneath the dust of frigid Harmony.
Portraits of the Poet in random Raw-Canvas words
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Scarred, age-blunted strangers' hands creep--silent--.
Father's, grandfathers'--short, blocky farmers'
Hands that wielded pump, plow, axe, and scythe--scraped
Broad knuckles, arthritis-warped--. Planes of face
Become my sons'; glints of eyes, deep-dyed
Umber, gleam when my daughters smile.-- Nose, ear,
Subtle flick of lip--these surface in my
children's children to startle breath and heart.
Double-, triple-, quad-exposures -- quints---
Aging, curling photographs, some faded
Back to gray; others fragment glints
Digital/Potential, as yet unformed--
Pixels radiating from my mystery--.
My life transformed into a Stranger's History.
After First Blooding:
In the Fragile Mind, Where Vampires Bloom
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In vacances of years bleak shadows spawn;
In blackened voids beneath raw, ancient eaves
Dust rustles dead mind-spectres in dead tarns--
She moves--thin, ghastly self--and moving breathes
Isolation's voiceless lust. My lantern
Slices with unsubtle gleam, pinions shades,
Slays and--enlightening--passes. Then
Rafters heavy-hung with harmless webs
Echo crooked-fingered light...no mystery.
For that brief flash, no blood; mute peace and rest.
But edges crisp to possibility...,
And lamplight fades, and vision's sharpness gasps
Again--to gods--she hovers at my throat,
In vacances of years, where shadows gloat.
Mountain Hike
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Alone. Embedded in densely layered
chaparral--scrub oak, black sage, chamise,
yucca, ceanothus--trapped in ambered
shadows, gray-green-not-gold, fringed with cerise
manzanita, I stride. The sun tints brick-
red shale to white, ripples solid-seeming
stone. Disturbing thick-scored dust, I stalk
thin-twisted serpent markings, scan teeming
skittered quail tracks, ponder clean-drawn lines
of lizards' tails in oppressing heat.
Alone. I stop--foot nudged--, questioning--,
against the sand-soft spoor of a mountain cat.
I stand alone in gray-green chaparral--consumed
By sounds of wild pursuit that does not come.
Fence Posts--.
And Thus the Past Proceeds
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A redwing blackbird ornaments narrow
Cattail blades, heat-blown and frowzy brown in
August sweat; cool marshes shrink to fallow
Pads—the redwing balances wing and wind.
A meadowlark stretches for its moment
To release a phantom song that kissed
Soft twilights decades past--still its descant
Conjures--.It waits and faces crimson east.
And--simplicity--a rusty-throated
Robin on its fence post. I should not hear
Its song for cries of tire-tread
On asphalt--but I do--and think I dare
To watch each cedar road-line cut its forms,
And pause for each new memory to be born.
Dance of the Post-Millennial Hours
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
some taunt, scratch, absently scrawl blue-bled lines.
some—red-rimed eyed--shift sandaled, curled feet,
thrust telepathic earthquake jitter-tines,
convulse sublunary worlds in magma-heat.
some grin and greet fear-distant silent spheres,
those left before and those behind. but some
intimidate --. not threat--not dare--not sneer--
but twist--hint--turn corroded khaki bone
at crotch distended by a searching hand--
stripe white then slump--then crude
image-thought irresolute, shun/stunned,
devolve to furtive shadow-echo-words--
deeper, wider, darker vortices where loom
passions to pattern, swallow, and consume.
A Stalker's Sonet
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now I have seen your calmness. Shake and crack
As you might wish me to, I have seen.
I promised yesterday I would come back
To visit you--to give you what you lack--.
I've watched. I've seen your calmness shake and crack
Like cliff-slides after torrent-squalls. I've been
Where passion engulfs all in muddy black--
I promised yesterday I would come back--.
Yes, I will come--I know the subtle knack
In the no-s you speak and the yes-es you mean,
Sense better than yourself can know your wrack
And heat. I've seen your calmness shake and crack--..
I will return--engulf you as my Queen
In Blood, in caustic fragrance copper-keen.
All Poems copyright 2003 (c) Michael Collings
JACK WESDORP
Knight Station
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Becky Knight was younger than her class mates,
and, no, she didn't go on dates like them,
(fat girls don't get asked), loved tectonic plates,
dig?, kept her nose in physics, math, and chem,
got volcanic fire banked deep inside,
graduated magna cum up stage-front,
scary-smart, that's her, got her bonafides,
whacked out a massive tome of thesis grunt,
until finally someone took notice.
While wintering over at McMurdo
she got grade, a raise, grant money, new toys,
treated the crew to lobster and sirloin,
got into working her butt off, (no boys),
kinda suspicious how it all happened
at once, like Pentagon presence, reports
in-triplicate, wire she thought tapping
for sure, strange how her cargo came up short
in the radionics graphs department.
"Someone's printing out core oscillations?"
(That's classified.) "Oh." Up at the crater
new stuff's going in under seals, station's
got more brass than grunts, heard from a waiter
in the skipper's mess they're looking at stars,
too bad there ain't no bars at Erebus.
"Telemetery's some days kinda sparse
ain't it, Beck?" Got leery broken cables,
got terse new neighbors, got trouble for sure.
"They're laying a low frequency array,
iron pylons set into quartz outcrops,
huge nuke generator down by the bay,
Becky, dear, down here they's the stone cold cops,
don't do anything crazy." Yeah, quiet,
let's put all this together: lotta oomph,
dielectric ins, they lie about it,
so enough wattage to drive a typhoon
spent underground, what else?, got satellite
scintillator data, let's call up HAARP,
"We're not supposed to-what's up, Doctor Knight?"
Geez, those spiral antennae spikes, look sharp
now, Becky, bet they can send and receive.
Hmm, flux gates show lots of oscillation,
can I get a line of sight?, Moire weave,
gotta prove it, work up some equations,
make sure I've hidden backups the Wazoo.
God what a slimy stew they're cooking down
dry in that valley, who're they gonna screw,
who's to make out?--and me, I feel spell-bound.
Checked in with Nelia at the Museum,
she says all that stuff adds up to real bad,
reduced to skulking screw-me no-see-um
in my own lab, someone's riffled my pad,
goddammit, get me that bastard brass hat:
"You boys are jerking the core, ain't that right?"
"Just basic ionosphere research, ma'am,
see the MPs if you think you've been robbed,
just fundamental geo stuff-" (click)-"damn,"
(I know when I'm being boy blow-off jobbed),
"that frigid bitch gonna make us trouble,
better do something terminal up there.."
And so Becky Knight's life turned to rubble;
they (whoa!) somehow set fire to her hair,
they laced cyanide in her granola,
there was a chlorine leak never explained,
brucine spiked bottle of Coca Cola,
galloping belly and painful migraines.
Yeh, ain't no doubt they looking to off her.
Good thing she's a smart and resourceful girl,
got her backpack with survivalist tools,
white-out knee-length parka, got her claws curled,
got her charts, CDs, data link, and spools,
a little red poly toboggan sled
stacked with food, dry socks, ready to bug out,
real solid in body and in her head,
had her hidey-holes scoped, kept them dug out,
up there in the cracks of Erebus rim.
One winter-over night she has a dream.
A black man is beckoning her to come,
"Rebecca Knight!", three times, red fire gleam
off his eyes, feral wolf glint, she is numb,
cannot move, but wants to run it with him,
first-time daemon mine, help me in my need
she cries out silent, up there on the rim
of forever. She a mare, he a steed
on the plain of chaos, or they are stars
in the firmament, or human beings
subtle of stature, driving brazen cars
across the zodiac, ever fleeing
silver and orange, red and black divine
two as one coursing the ends of heaven
drinking immortal waters, fiery wine,
sharing salt, and blood, and breaking leaven
as the poets chant aeld that gods are wont.
An hour later, had you the wit to see,
two midnight hands thrust from a roiling cloud,
slam a hammer with great good gravity
and finesse, spattering a flaming shroud
of magma around his basalt anvil
that is Erebus mountain's crater lake,
and slowly, measured out, it starts to fill
with boiling iron, coiled as dragon snakes
do around the rim of our universe.
And if you had the means to hear
a god's quiet voice, you would hear his curse
cast onto the deeps, precise, very clear,
a trinity of nesting orbs broken
with one stroke. And if you keep the true heart,
you would know the oath-bind that is spoken
before all witness stars, with all his art
laid out grave on the table between them.
We believe that shared dreams are the real thing;
she's just had one together with a god.
Certain, beyond doubt, her heart's sprouted wings,
and she knows the way where no men have trod.
As the lava worm rises inside slow,
she's skiing downslope outside world-class fast,
pushing the sled's poles, it's thirty below,
she's not beholden to cold. Nor hourglassed
is that time about to be, a clear slate
outside mortal meandering, stasis
within the great dragon's coil, and the date
on her calendar says: Right Now. Glasses
dropped somewhere, don't need them; got her boots close,
find a parallel track, let the sled lead.
At Amundsen they try to diagnose
the sudden loss of all-channel trace, "No f.f.feed
f.f.from the top," a myopic tech stammers,
and just about that time a mother storm
hits the coast with a god's maul and hammers
everyone into hiding at their dorms.
The wind's a howler, now forty below.
That first run gets her to Nausea Point,
holed up in a snorkel tent next a cliff
getting in tune with being anointed
as a spirit's consort, being hieroglyph
and symbol and tree, being a channel
from body to soul, being met halfway
for the first and only time, a candle
and a star, fire, water, wind, and clay,
all these brooding, how they work, all as one,
how stone and spirit intersect in time.
That's her: Time. Empress. Shekinah. Moon and Sun.
Wisdom. Purpose. Art. Dance. Music. Writ. Rhyme.
It is an in-between no-place all-now.
She examines her knot in a great skein,
grains of sand on a slate beach. Makes a vow
to haunt her thread however it's twisted
by greed, lust, power, more!, faster!, and yea
I can rightly say she's royally pissed.
Yeah, that don't bode well for the ones who jerk.
Then, in three-inches per hour, she moves on,
heading for the fumarole field, her tracks
broomed away in minutes, and she grooves on
one vent only she knows of, on the cracks
of blown-out doom, unto the gate of Hell.
There she camps a second dream-time, and cooks
a turkey in twin colanders hung well
to the slip-stream's side, comfortable, with spooks
hovering on guard, tending to her hearth,
at her call, while she eats part of the bird
and dries the frugal rest, contains her wrath
in its bones, as witches do, casts a word
into her hand-maiden ghosts set to weave
tapestry fit for a god's own table,
in gold thread as it has been done of old,
as cast in stone and written in fable,
embroidered with wit and guile, hard and bold.
Packed up close that morning she gains the cleft,
pulls up the sled, finds the right stream's runnel
and sets to follow it into the depth.
To plumb the volcano's esker tunnels,
its bore holes, steaming grotto lakes, step-ways,
flow-stone chambers set with carnelian spheres,
following how her earthly body plays,
how a crystal knows sight, how a stone hears,
and in her regency she plucks an orb,
invests it with this chronicle you read,
full fore-knowing stepping up to a door
bound with intricate brass and silver screed,
a moon underground and she's arrived home.
Up on top the crater is ready filled,
four feet of new snow obscure its coursing,
quietly Erebus station is killed,
swept away by the magma that's forcing
its way up from the core, flowing steady,
finding its flotsam-burn way to the sea.
"There's some remotes sending, kinda thready,
damn, looks like a major eruption, sir."
Just enough to bug out quick, dump the nuke,
and its boss-man gets a permanent burr
under his saddle with the bureaucrats.
Amazing how the lava only hit
those barracks that accumulated rats,
those parts of McMurdo that serviced shit,
how the steel containment dome got encased
up to its ass hole in government gum,
in molten barium ore and lead laced
iron sand and feldspar quartz amalgam.
They managed a news copout for some months.
So it's, "Roight, that frigid bitch is a stiff.
Why waste man-hours, wait six months, she'll turn up."
It only takes a moon, then there's this riff
across the worldwide news: Nuke Plant Burns Up!
"Goddammit, where's that coming from, shut down
the presses, or we're cooked." (Yes, you turkey,
exactly, that's how your butt gets whacked down,
that's how a goddess deals with core-jerky
guys who're into scoring blackmail bigtime.)
More byte flows forth: graphs, maps, charts, spools of stuff,
proving the planning of a monstrous crime,
pointing at heads, bank-books, and bonds; enough
to enrage the worldwide blue-collar salt.
For this: sea ports drowned by tsunami waves,
hurricane winds, polar shift, axial tilt,
plate blow-outs, bombs, and mass bulldozer graves.
By these: accountants, insurance jockeys,
real estate companies on every coast,
their home offices safe in the Rockies,
winding up fat when your apartment's toast.
A pointed finger, all pinned and snoopered:
five lawyers, two colonels, a congressman,
and a bunch of hapless goons too stupid.
what they are planning and how it is done.
The president barely keeps his own balls
by washing his dirt live on-camera
telling it baldly to a sold out hall
pious babble amidst the clamoring,
how they'd have induced the core to wobble,
maybe even changed our orbital swoop,
Lady Earth on a crutch, hobbling along..
The salt of the world don't like getting duped,
it don't wait for no cops, it's never wrong,
and it takes care of that business right off.
So. After the mess and the killing's done,
(makes kindly uncle Adolf look real nice)
the world of salt settles into a stunned
repose, what it's paid, wondering at the price.
Becky Knight shows up on Easter Island
much changed. She keeps herself aloof and free,
to save her charge, raise her daughter, silent
about where she's been, how that came to be.
Naught about the wyrm round our universe,
intersection of body and spirit,
love of god and girl, nor of spell and curse,
her heart serpent-girt, her purpose in it,
until she dies a grandmotherly way.
And there it would have quietly ended
bent kneeling low on a beach silver grey
curling hair blendt unto sand and splendid,
content next great stone staring statue heads
who know that mortal like stone also ends,
watching their sun set round orange and reds.
.except for her vulcanologist friends
who, when they'd heard of the eruption, grieved;
who didn't stop looking , nor gave up hope;
who, hence, just a few trusted ones, believed;
hear and see, who can read a horoscope,
and who recognize their friend's fiery glint.
I have seen the child. She looks like them both:
silver halo mane, eyes of flaring flint,
carob skin, his hands, her face, nothing loath
to take on the world on its chosen field.
That the new lab would be named Knight Station
was obvious, nary expense was spared;
it became a school, that installation
under a vitrine dome, and it has fared
very well (director's name is Vesta)
these past thirty-three years of sacrifice.
Of silence. They said, "a testament, ja?
Something fitting, lasting, we'll pay the price."
They found a sculptor to do it up right
and he knew a way to make her deathless
struck from black core block basalt diorite
gorgeous enough to catch guys breathless
set on a pedestal up on the rim
gazing pensive not quite yet satisfied.
If you approach and look close at the slim
naked figure you will see the black bride
of Erebus, in her left arm a book
from whose pages protrudes a raven quill,
in her right hand a sphere, her eyes the look
of one old who understands about Will,
gazing into the caldera unveiled
casting ghost-weft over a lake aflame
off her statue set up on the rim trail.
So, a book, the quill, globe, form, and a name
that goes on long, very long: Vulcan's Wife.
Copyright (c) 2003 Jack R. Wesdorp
JACK WESDORP
The Traveler
~~~~~~~~~~~~
He drove a Ford rattletrap,
tires with hardly some tread,
frayed jeans, brand new John Deere cap
like green light around his head.
Must've been long on the road,
I took a peek through his door,
empty but hauling a load
the size of this world and more,
I could tell by his shoulders.
"Fill 'er up, kid, how's the food?
Don't worry, I pay in gold."
I bit my tongue, "pretty good,
solid farmer fare we say..."
He ate what we had, and then
counted out twelve coins to pay,
"hope that's enough, just say when."
Never seen any like those
sparkling on the counter top,
shekels from a frozen time
many handed to our shop.
Mom whispered, "stop, that's enough."
He tipped his cap and drove on,
we bought ten years worth of stuff,
we never heard where he'd gone.
"Loaves and fishes," my mom said,
and now we know that he ain't dead.
Copyright (c) 2003 Jack R. Wesdorp
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