Keith Taylor Poems

Many people think that there is only one King,
Who rules over all, everyone, everything.
Well, I come here to tell you how
That there are Gods that walk among us now!
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At that moment, call it the float
if you like, but the precise moment
between your giving me the money
and my giving you the merchandise,
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Uncertain about the difference
between his memory and the myth,
the thing he'd been told and what he'd seen,
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A camel in the church yard on State
walked around the fence toward our car
(This is true! It really did happen
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She listens, not to the green world exploding
around her, not to Vesuvius howling—
the hour has come; of two working in the field
one shall be taken; of two women grinding wheat
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The gardener sculpts the land
to help us remember the names
we’ve lost: wild ginger
and false Solomon’s seal,
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There is a dance at water's edge,
a movement between the lake, its sand
and the horizon where lake becomes cloud.
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When it dawns crystalline, blue,
the air sparkling with prisms
reflected off oak and spruce,
off every twig, branch, or limb,
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