Wednesday, April 15, 2015

National Poetry Month 2015: Stan Rogal,




FURTHER BEYOND

How resolve a human intercourse that always changes, never lasts, never becomes affectionate?


Beyond either drunk & disorderly, unhinged by the horrors
or bit by the brainfever bird.
Beyond what reaches by melodrama, only.
Beyond her diaphanous flesh.
Beyond tremble, tremble, tremble...
Beyond the swingin’ blue rhythm of the slide trombone.
Beyond scaling brains with music previously unimagined.
Beyond scape-ghosts & half scape-ghosts.
Beyond: Oh, we poets are a tough breed of killer & I gets lonesome,
Dr. Blood.  The good fight becomes a bore.
Beyond my girl, my ghoul, a shade across the branch.
Beyond kicked against the pricks.
Beyond who splits the belly of the beast.
Beyond a good-travelling-graveyard.
Beyond sudden, uncalled-for ejaculate that pearls the sheets
& fills a young mind with Terrors.
Beyond bodies are merely the furniture of dreams
& we are using our own skins for lampshades.
Beyond the bend of bow that drags music from an arrow’s shaft.
Beyond how ascertain the straight skinny among such obsessive compulsive?
Beyond History winks at me like a bluebottle.
Beyond this is hot & bothered & no mistaking.
Beyond the act of my dying has become a ritual, so, a bore.
Beyond wandering ‘lonely as a cloud.’
Beyond whatever grimly drawn cliché still holds water:
looks like a man, barks like a dog, crawls on his belly
like a snake.
Beyond waving not drowning.
Beyond almost alive (barely) at the triggered lip.
Beyond Freud’s so-called “throbbing collective subconscious”.
Beyond who is nothing less than your run-of-the-mill perverse
Heterosexual
with an onion for a heart, a wooden stake for a pecker
& a phobia for spiders & mayonnaise.
Beyond searching for a guy with kerosene in his scrotum.
Beyond what it is, that primary thing that skulls the head.
Beyond ‘gone down to blow the joint’ requires
an owl of thought with powers to discern the invisible
Naked.
Beyond what Christly Hell that can’t distinguish fair from foul.
Beyond trapped somewhere between god & cockroach.
Beyond the Devil pulling lemons in Reno.
Beyond lay of the land outstretched to spike a vein.
Beyond the back seat armoured as it is against hornèd amour.
Beyond, O, juice the sump son –the bronco’s gone mad, clearing
knives from the drawers & spilling blood from the crankcase.
Beyond shaving unwanted hair to de-freakify.
Beyond she & I together on a train grinding country charts to hell
pans out sexless even as a nipple drops to the stage floor.
Beyond got hot, came a lot, got shot.
Beyond what better way to hold a Frenchman’s liquor than by the ears?
Beyond stripping the lily of whatever gilt leaves among the split & busted.
Beyond who salutes & who shoots.
Beyond 911 or any other faulty towers leveled at the knees.
Beyond where purses get taken for drugstores & private shops
get taken for public lifts.
Beyond enough suspended particulars to kill a mockingbird.
Beyond when the plot dulls simply drop the laundry.
Beyond strict case of the blonde leading the blonde.
Beyond slap-happy booshwa boys getting off on wars half-cocked,
their seed spilling every which way but in the gloryhole.
Beyond who gives skull to alien forms suffers Stockholm Syndrome.
Beyond plush, pink salmon rushed by on the horns of dilemmas.
Beyond what goes around, comes around, surely, as bleary minds go bats.

Beyond beyond, with its huddled crowds of faceless apparitions,
Whether petals on wet black boughs, coats hung upon hangers or whatever
other everyday serves to spark the

Fabulous.



Stan Rogal's work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US and Europe, some in translation. He is the author of 19 books: 4 novels, 4 story and 11 poetry collections. He is also a produced playwright. He is currently working on a new novel and waiting patiently for word back from publishers about other completed mss. His other interests include mime, clown and interpretive dance, especially when performed by other poets. He once saw Allen Ginsberg naked.

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