Black Poetry : with love on the road to porterville

romusthepoet

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with love on the road to porterville
by romus simpson

in the sleep gardens
alone behind the blue wall
that comes perfectly in each cell
lay you in the beautiful pasture
with its hanging grapes & moons
deep silver night velvet & the dark green of this county
or on the bus with swaddled migrant workers
who hide beautiful scars
who are closest to jesus
who are his illiterate apostles
& are informal carpenters but are beautifully unaware
or where the mauve trails lay like rest & unfurl bronze
between a whole memory of flushing fields & set the sky on fire
we travel breath to breath
our mutual blood cadencing in our throats
peer into the shutter of day fettered omens
stutter flashed & spoked through
a regiment of exact almond trees

at the ave. 86
like baptizing foreigners in the clear streets
of an november san juaquin morning that
rolls down the steep backroads like a choir of bright water
you push against me
i stand perfectly still to create this memory
catalogue the minute the sun the saturday sun
10 miles of budding alfalfa falling the rising
an odd hill like a buddha
my white shirt your smile & eyes your breasts
cactus lining the tangerine orchards

we speed away
our hair streams from the cars
exchange hope in the light blue banter & speed
come to settle then rise on the two lane highway
trucks break seas of silence & post the hour
they meet us like blind great trucks
oh, trucks working in god’s country
hay swirling behind them like a comet’s tail
we smell it & dream of horses
 

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