gershon hepner Poems

To lipton is to clarify the thoughts
that, obfuscating in a swamp
had seemed impossible to comp-
rehend, responding to them with retorts
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From the top of your back teeth most art is not
mere furniture, said Erik Satie;
it should inspire, with both light and heat, an aliquot
of poetry with which to party.
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There’s writing and there is orality.
With texts we reach into each others’ minds,
but with orality reality
can be as clear as windows without blinds
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the book of Psalms sings like an organ in the heart
with diapasons of pure poetry
the record of all feelings on and off the chart
played in the loft, the head, which is its major key.
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In hospitals in England they
are turning beds five times a day
to Mecca so that men can pray,
but will the nurses bring a bedpan
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The fall from the quotidian
affects us post meridiem;
if you’ve got thoughts, then say ’em
before high noon, in a.m.
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Some write words, some life, I’d rather,
combing both, let words illuminate
experiences that I gather
and on my pages aggregate,
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To find the conclusion it is necessary first
to see there’s something that you miss,
then when you feel the lack of it to have a thirst
for ends that tell you to dismiss.
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The marks made by the steps of feet,
unlike the record of a word
can’t be recorded on a sheet,
and only can be seen, not heard,
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No witchcraft, potion, and no magic wand
is needed by a woman who with words
can make a man of whom she once was fond
turn without any trouble into turds.
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