gershon hepner Poems

Yet Jews kept faith with crabbed rites,
wrote Updike, close to death, recalling
the words the poet David writes,
which are to dying men enthralling.
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My body’s Braille, but far less famous
than that attributed to Seamus.
I mean the body of my work,
that like a confidential clerk
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Secrets can transform
a friendship into love,
heating what is warm,
to levels far above
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Material man, like asteroids,
falls with a blast. Can’t last. Steroids
made sure he’d end up as a gonner,
sans reputation. Will Madonna
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I look into the mist and see
no glaring inconsistencys,
asleep, awake like Finnegan,
and ready to begin again,
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The cacti were in bloom that day
alive, though they’d appeared
as dead as rocks that round them lay,
by sun and hot wind seared.
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“Are you English? ” “Au contraire! ”
Beckett’s answer was quite fair.
Wait and take your cue from Godot:
let “contrary” be your motto.
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If you cannot sing a song
you may find that you can extract
the meaning if you try to act
the music to which words belong
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Motherhood that lasts beyond the cradle and the breast:
maternity.
Trading recklessly in hedge funds, hoping for the best:
modernity.
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We can tell more by implying
than by being quite explicit.
Though it always is illicit
to elude the truth lying,
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