gershon hepner Poems

Claiming to have done due diligence,
Harold Pinter, being prized, derides
Americans, who suffocate intelligence
voluptuously on cushions supersized.
...

“There’s no miraculous escape–
Shechem’s synonymous with rape, ”
they told their father, in his camp
where he sat sweating, hands cold, damp,
...

A sad wine lack complexity,
like empty skeletons exhumed,
or men without perplexity,
who never seem to be consumed
...

The novel, mental basement, is defined
by differing rooms that make it democratic,
while poetry is always undermined
by autocratic thoughts within the attic,
...

TOPLESS


In order to have insight, do not concentrate:
...

Only if you do not think
can you become the thought
of those who try make you shrink,
and nix you into nought.
...

Buffon declared the vulture
to have the lowest instinct, which he called voracity;
humans consider culture
their highest instinct, lowest when it lacks veracity.
...

Death encourages, said Marianne,
and he who strongly feels behaves
not like an angel, but a mortal man,
a lighthouse facing stormy waves.
...

Endlessly proliferating semiosis
interpreted too fallibly by exegesis
converts the numinous in all five books of Moses
to fodder for best sellers or a doctoral thesis.
...

The fading flower of fidelity
must be watered, like a melancholy ode
Keats might have read while offering Shelley tea,
to prove to him his inspiration always flowed.
...