David McLansky Poems

Perhaps they shall love me better after Death
When this writhing Spirit shall finally lay stlll;
When my exhaled thoughts exiled in sighing breaths,
My latest cast rough hewn beyond my will;
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The rows extend into infinity
The crosses gleaming bare
We step in siilent solemnity.
Over bodies buried there.
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Oh do not judge this peeling shield of flesh
Made coarse and dry by lashing wind and sky
Once I was handsome, a young man by sleep refreshed
A glory to the touch and to the eye.
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My many moods swing
My Day
They swing me from the dawn,
They break me big,
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Odysseus heavy barreled in an armchair
A man barrel voice
Wind swept over the Aegean
Over me in resonance
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I too have been a swinger of birches
I have climbed those snow lent limbs
In my childhood adventure searches;
My careful ascent proving this no idle whim.
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I should have grabbed him by the balls
And lifted him on high,
Then slammed him on the wrestling mat
And broke his bony thighs
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Remember me as I was
Not by this molting flesh
Time has scouraged with despair
Ill-used beyond repair
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They lowered the babe into my lap;
Careful with her ties and snaps,
Her naked legs, startled, churning;
My eyes welled up, my throat was burnng.
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Hello, it's me
Someone from your distant past
Someone you once loved
But it didn't last
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