A Dinner With Candles Into The Earth’s Womb Poem by Roland Bastien

-Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain…
Thomas Hardy (Hap)





A dinner with candles into the earth’s womb

In the mist of death
Bring by the rain
My frog dispatched rot left
By the wind on the sea lips

Faithless haste whimpered a putrid hymn
While my eyes brought
On its lids what kept memory secret

Death froze on its cot the cog - dropped it
Into the moon belly
To sink the Planck time

Who draped the burs
From God’s tomb and oozed
Shadows inward Hardy’s hap

Where plenty eggs
Claimed a diner with candles into the earth’s womb

Death cannot see as far as it could
Eve - the day grieved

Time sweated
Heated by the pregnant moon

In the mist of its pilgrimage among tombs
It chanted my Tedium.



Roland Bastien

Feb 19 2008-