A muse is as common as elms in my poetry – there’s always one that crops up somewhere.
3:33
dear muse
thank you for your outpouring
at 3:33am
and the generous gift
of the sieve
with the fist-sized holes
Between sleep and I
i’ve curled tight inside my lethargy
warmed by half-expectation
behind colder bells, the wind who tells
tall, bright tales. The conflagration
of red umbrellas arrows through grey
lace curtains; the voices soak
the wind who tells, behind colder bells
stories i almost hear. They stoke
further tales, stir them with the embers
the words drowsy with disuse
behind colder bells, the wind who tells
half-lies to a hibernating muse
Imago
the muse almost in hand
my hands, remote with winter
dry and transparent
so lucent now i am
afraid the words will fall through
The Muse
The muse has been salted for colder days
no space in tight corridors to cellar
her rhymes or image flasburns; the teller
of tales nailed fast. Metaphor strays
no further than the eye today, and plays
in the shadow of Lingua, head-dweller
who has usurped my residence. Teller
of tales, for now words fall through salted haze.
Traditionally, there are nine muses: Calliope for writers of epic poetry, Clio for historians, Erato for romance writers, Euterpe for song writers, Melpomene for writers of tragedy, Polyhymnia for hymns, Terpsichore for dancers, Thalia for comedians and Urania for astronomers. All are the daughters of Mnemosyne, whose name means memory.
A lot of my poetry asks – or implores – the muse directly. I’m not sure who, though to me, the muse is the other part of me that’s just out of my peripheral view, the part of me that keeps one foot in other worlds.
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