The Beekeeper (Eliot Cardinaux)

  The Beekeeper


For an accepted (norm),
  I might add color
 to the color that already was

  facing south, and wind-west,
   where summer is,
 all the year, ’round and ’round.

Sound about the body-curve,
  Sound about the olive,
 in so wrecking

what fort I have made,

  or may, or may have, counting stars,
   all this year, ’round and ’round
 who are, yet near.

                        And counted, all the stones
          I have,
   come in droves
             
      the bees that have gone,
      the bees that have, as they must,
      a feeling of home, or home lost,

   and beating out their wings,
  furiously, at whose command?


2/11  ’11

Shell for a spectator (Eliot Cardinaux)

  Shell for a spectator

               Sky, pure sky,

               empty with the words

                 of protest

               splashing against

                        its dome

            I will growl,

               into the

                        night

              music, with its

                           orange

                     calliope of smoke

                 a dance,

                        for beauty,

                 you are a woman,

                         freely moving,

                the shells at his feet,

                  where is he gone?

                  into the black and white

 

                           leaves
                a scarcity on trees,

scarcely moving,

                  twirling, spinning,

                        no one

                               is empty
                                               at all.

 

2/10  ’11

A Black Sheep (Eliot Cardinaux)

  A Black Sheep

Necessity the mother

            ..all  invention,

                  so, imagination,

                  an illicit son.

            Bah!  an illusion,

             say it might I, ay?

2/07  ’11

A Round (Eliot Cardinaux)

  A Round – Turn, turn, turn (for the melody of Pete Seeger)
    (i.e. a time for war, a time for peace, there is a season, etc.)

– ship, ghostwreck, (introduction)

song:

           break ,   re-

                           build?

                                at the heart,

                     break,  re-build

                                 move,

                                at the heart

                                        quotation

                                             alas –

                                                      a

                                               ship, break, rebuild

                                       a song

                                                         (the melody) 
                                                                       - world,

                                                            return, turn, turn,

2/06  ’11

Judy Collins and Pete Seeger (turn turn turn)