Jay Mandeville Poems

behold these inanimate signs
on a page of unlooked-at lines
concealed from the world by mass neglect
skipped by browsers that never connect
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the mountain enters the house
through a maize ear.
the river brings back planters' soil.
blue night shimmers with heat
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The bee in a moment's transparence
Unhusks with its flight the Abyss
And from me care and desire shifts
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Today, come with me,
and we'll stake our claim:
a hiding place
in a quaint, abandoned sawmill,
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Through storm and sun
a stone slab preserves
the impression of
an antediluvian fish
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Not to know
someone from Adam...
how long ago that takes us.
The sword-plow and
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MARILYN THE UNPROFESSIONAL

Marilyn the unprofessional
highly personal description of herself
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What sacrifice decreed -
the evil done, the heart
resisting - has spoken
plainly in this
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green in the midst of drab desolation
green ‘til the tide in the street overflows
green that preserves green's green reputation
green behind curtains, like cellist & bow
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printed books run a risk:
silent, while life shouts.
neglected, despised,
yet a quiet surprise,
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