Thursday, December 25, 2008

poems from c s giscombe's class-

first poem-




kettledrums and wrestler elephant and elephant keeper



tighten your waistband fasten your curly locks




sovereign of elephants, seized (him) by his trunk



--- slipping the hold darting between pillars of feet





the elephant smells the sweat, he slips free

grasping him by his tail as an eagle a snake dodging

left-right midst twirl of hips as boy with calf



then suddenly forward Wham on the head



and still more feints and more and hits.







by. now. furious gashed

elephant

a final gore with its tusklips blood phlegmed yellow each separate tooth



goaded.



but he lifts him by the trunk hurls him to the ground stepping like a lion he tears the tusk





& then also breaks the skull of the elephant keeper.



holding tusk as ripened fingernail aloft as trophy he enters,

rut and further elephant fluid on his muscle



lotus face,

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