Joan Woodbridge Poems

"What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? " "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg


The season frazzles
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The deciduous year attenuates
draws thin
my insubstantial resolve.
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Light follows darkness as darkness light:
the stunned sun halts mid-dance
Shiva Nataraj
motionless
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Kiswar Q'Inti*, The Royal Hummingbird of the North has entered this body
penetrating at the solar center
insinuating herself into each cell.
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definitive compartment
outsized objects squeezing in
awkward
expose my naked unprolificity
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quite suddenly
the leaves
are
gone
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Only now may it be spoken
that the Divine had placed her numinous imprint
upon the earth of those several young summers
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Time
the uneasy measure
we lay upon unfettered infinity
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What is it that I ask of religion?

I ask
that you serve
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I am She-Bear denned in sweet earth
I dream snow-covered leaves and frozen fields
I dream fish asleep in icy rivers
I dream leafless trees and waning light
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