Poems by Michael Burch
Excerpts from "Poetry"
... ***I will take and cradle you in my arms, ...
The City Is A Garment
... and everywhere bright seams, unraveling,now spill their brilliant contents out like coins ...
In Flight Convergence
... in the white neon flash and the billboards of convenience ...
Cleansings
... They call you good,dead eyes devoid of tears ...
To Flower
... his mother [Agave] and the other maenads, possessed by Dionysus, tore him apart (Euripides, Bacchae ...
Discrimination
... was ripped from books of "verse" that read like prose ...
Auschwitz Rose
... " Sleeping, all ...
Rainbow (II)
... the God who dreamed foul me and this bright Rainbow ...
The Octopi Jars
... parachuting down, down through clouds of pallid ammonia ...
The Forge
... a thing inert, as gray, as dull as stone,then bend this way and that, and slowly cool ...
Because Her Heart Is Tender, for Beth
... No rain swept away those words, no tear leaves them undone ...
Tremble
... clenched in pinched expectation, ...
Water and Gold
... I pledged to meet your price, but promised rashly ...
Memory
... .. This is what I remembernow that I cannot forget ...
Fountainhead
... to bathe there was its transport, brushed ...
