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Poem Details
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| Title: | "Si monumentum requiris, circumspice"... (If you seek (his) monument look around you) |
| Author: | Kate McInnes |
| Date Submitted: | 4/26/2007 |
| Poem: |
Leaning lamp eyes groan rapturous insects hover- lewd fierce squirming clouds out of the malignant dark. Beneath the fetid glow a pile, a shape... smoky rumpled rags crumpled dumped, those steely lean eyes now satedly snooze buried by crispy quarrelsome newspapers. The shambles of brown bagged sentinels Their jarring percussion silenced... mouthing now an empty o. Leaning lamp eyes groan rapturous insects hover- lewd fierce squirming clouds out of the malignant dark.... |