December 20, 2008

Ars Poetica

The man who thought the ocean a bull
rode out to red horizon.
The ocean threw off a corpse
stiff as water was not.

It lay flat in the stadium of noon
where a bull tossed over its horns
a death no less real than the ocean.

—Dan Featherston

Posted by dwaber at December 20, 2008 03:30 PM