gershon hepner Poems

Only Connect

A house with many views can never be
an empty nest so long as we connect
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Taming and humiliating
nature, Versailles’ gardens represent
a challenge for a maid-in-waiting
who paid them the enormous compliment
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There was a secret chord that David played;
Bathsheba heard it, bathing in the pool.
The music drove the words that David prayed
away like colored autumn leaves in Yule.
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ITransposing and retitling and rewriting
are all prerogatives of editors
who spend a lot of energy indicting
their writers, for they are competitors
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I was in whirlwind and thinking of girls
and batons that high in the air each one whirls,
but now I think only of you, for you’re movin’
my body in ways of which we’re both approvin’.
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The word and rod are both a part
of power, soft but also hard,
together they are very smart,
each one the other’s guard.
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Sumo rings are no-go places
for women who love men who’re fat,
regarding thin men as disgraces.
If I, too, were a big fat cat,
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Do not go gentile into that good night.
One Dylan almost said this, hardly gentle,
when raging against darkness with a fight
that often now involves experimental
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They used to think that it was drought
that drove the Anasazi out
of southwest cities on the mesas,
to die there, like forgotten races.
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Turning on a paradigm,
I have tried extremely hard
to be godly in my rhyme,
hoping to be avatarred,
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