Jan. 10th, 2012
Writer's Block: Poetry Break
Jan. 10th, 2012 01:37 pmReflected in the Eye of a Dragonfly
Reflected in the eye of a dragonfly in lunar pool
And we will sail away on oceans
And a haze of carillons and juniper spines and the great
valley of humming gongs
On ships that sail away forever
Unexplained light reflected from the spine of a
metallic viper
I’ll seal your radiant kiss my lover
Strange rooms engulfed by a halo of alien architecture
Like sun across my eyes forever
And a dark garden of dragonflies encased in sulfur
You’ll see me standing there my lover
A silent walk through flowered knife shadows
Like trees against the sky forever
Then an unexplained kiss from a lethal angel
Then we will sail away on oceans
Reflected in the eye of a dragonfly in a lunar pool
On ships that sail away forever
—Harold Budd, from the album Glyph, 1995 (Collected in the book Colorful Fortune)