rdking.net

Collected Poetry

    (rd king dot net)
poetry and digital art

Beating Heart, Dancing Feet  

  Homage to Georg Trakl 


The pull of two planets cannot be abated
nor deferred.  Even the tides coalesce

in rising abeyance:  mutual insinuation occurs
and the knowledge of this, the insight

toward a celestial speculation, is finally
an urge to malinger.  A hawk takes its prey;

shells fall on the ancient city; the restless
wander from triage to tavern to quiet glen.

The moon tears through leafless trees again, losing
itself in blackness; in a splendor the sun rises

and is defied by the frost.  The chosen one stands
in an empty field, regarding some distant mountains.



        back | ToC | next

© 2015 rdking