Sunday, October 27, 2013

Dans l’estomac de la Loire


The river swallowed
her, turned
her into a bolus, slid
her into a slow stomach in
 the middle of pre-primeval Nantes.

    And waited.

      Time churned, silts settled,
       her tender toes now tap twenty
        thousand leagues beneath
        the Jules Verne Museum beneath
        a dancing salon named
         Sea of
          Dreams.
            Her serpent twines
              expectant near her cunt – ou,
                       disons-nous, near the école élémentaire
                                    named after Gustave Roch, scholar
                                        of surfaces topological until he
                                          died untimely in the coils
                                           of tuberculosis . . .
                                           Her nipple
                                          perks the Palais
                                          des Sports de  Beaulieu,
                                            where Real Madrid played
                                                PAOK Thessaloniki
                                                    in a beautiful ’92
                                                       Eurocup
                                                        game.


Image: le jardin, by Max Ernst. For other stories it inspired,
see Magpie Tales.

6 comments:

  1. Hip and intelligent write...always a treat to see you at Magpie, Kathy...

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  2. ha. really like the structure of this and how it plays into the poem...very nice...

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  3. One of the best poems Ive read today. Kudos to your words. :)

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  4. this is way cool...love where the pic took you... what a journey...eh...

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