Una Vida de Piedra y de PalabraUna Vida de Piedra y de Palabra number 23 in the 2River Chapbook Series
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poems by Charles D. Tarlton

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XI.
XII.

In the Dialectic of Over and Under
Truth in the Larger Sense
“Lives in the Balance”
On Death, and Dying’s Threshold
“Give Me Men to Match my Mountains”
Going-to-the-Sun
“But Eternity Remains”
Convergence of Time and Distance
Tantum Ergo
Blood of My Blood
Only the Rational Is Real
Ecce Homo

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  I:  In the Dialectic of Over and Under

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surrounding the air,
beating
the surrounding air;

wind blowing
through a loose stocking
in the streets,
lifting yellow
the sky over me,
coming and going.

dry leaves,
    
gold and red, sienna

like old Mexican money
crinkling to the touch,
exhausted donkey ears
resembling a lover’s
hard fist
in a glove of kisses.

they pitch us
at the lengthening moon.

                 
2

sparkling tiara days,
but nights spent in the rough,
our bones dissolved in vitriol,
abraded quietly to rust:

long sad nights
and all the flowers
to the last dead seed
from the anthers to the stigma
ground down,
          fatherless             
womb to womb.


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