BY TED BERRIGAN
Stronger than alcohol, more great than song,
deep in whose reeds great elephants decay,
I, an island, sail, and my shores toss
on a fragrant evening, fraught with sadness
bristling hate.
It’s true, I weep too much. Dawns break
slow kisses on the eyelids of the sea,
what other men sometimes have thought they’ve seen.
And since then I’ve been bathing in the poem
lifting her shadowy flowers up for me,
and hurled by hurricanes to a birdless place
the waving flags, nor pass by prison ships
O let me burst, and I be lost at sea!
and fall on my knees then, womanly.
I revisit this poem so often. And I wonder, using this as a measure for beauty, sadness, and real emotional movement, if it's possible to create a visual body of work as equally powerful as what this poem does for me?
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