Dream Lubricant

Dream Lubricant Herman Beavers (bio) Cave Canem: A Special Section I won’t dance, don’t ask me Chantmask; obelisk . . . oil drums playing, tycoons sore afraid two arms cannot tilt the clouds flat maddened gulls find the sea by night air whistles poles of light beauty yesterdayed crushed angels wearing green memory of women’s salty voices a stare hard & wet put away amidst angry bed sounds red hat from heaven blinks bright the room fingering dry stone in neoteric backlight neck of his guitar an inadequate sky breast pounding haunted boy a nimbus jangling behind certainty become rumor morning slow as manna lonely bread whiteness angel child making light of peace before evening nowaday women become hieroglyphic art [End Page 1000] eyes sending cease contrite promises vast blue rock magic sad pie ache silent I wantmyself to have allhe cannot have goodbye tundra of yes Herman Beavers Herman Beavers is an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is author of A Neighborhood of Feelings (poems) and Wrestling Angels into Song: The Fictions of Ernest J. Gaines and James Alan McPherson. Copyright © 2000 Charles H. Rowell

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