gershon hepner Poems

The circle, inexhaustible, precise,
is unconditionally stable,
and, reproduced, becomes exactly twice
itself, which men who try to do aren’t able.
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From Hart Crane the title,
though given by Martha
to Aaron’s recital;
there’s nothing he’d rather
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With no fear of danger that might injure,
pirouetting through the air,
flying backwards and on high heels Ginger
used to dance with Fred Astaire.
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Baby, you must know that I’m entangled
up in your blue eyes that match my own.
Other flighty females, more new-fangled
than you, don’t do for me what you alone
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With a smell we disinter
the past, as with a madeleine
Marcel, notorious pasticheur,
once did. Words never can explain
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Like a raven at my window with a broken wing
I see you standing, and I start to howl,
because there are no words that I can bring
to mind, and all that I can say is “Foul”.
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When a candle in the thighs
inflames my woman, lucky men
like me respond without surprise,
allowing the equestrienne
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GREGOR SAMSA


He woke up in the morning thinking he was vermin,
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INNOCENCE


Let the supplanter look
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This tale describes how Israelites all grumbled
at God and Moses in the wilderness.
Although they all by biting snakes were humbled,
God cured them by a magical process
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