Stupid internet humor
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The ineffable and the laughable.
Trinity
I.
The boy pixilated
Pointed
Quickly scoops cold
Salt water
into the hole he has been carefully digging
since noon.
Dark arms of dusk
land long across the
Rocky sand
growing shadows meet
the boy’s heavy intention
His smooth brow furrowed
Grabs wildly at the tide
small hands cupped
to receive communion.
Instead the water continues to roll
Swirling
upon the sand
Leaving its memories behind
the boy, with few memories yet,
Bows before his work
Sweeping in every drop
Overflowing.
He is Icarus
Having never left the ground
already fallen.
II.
My eyes close to the chorus engulfing me.
I want to be the child again.
I say one sentence; the church falls away
I am left in the space of
Darkness between color on a pointillist canvas.
Awed by the spectrum of harmony
The continuous whisper.
I ache to share, but stay silent and still as can be.
III.
Wiley Coyote never won
Over the din of slurping milk he would run out
Over the canyon, trickling river and stop
mid-air, an apostrophe with no possession.
He would look down, I would crunch on a fruit loop
and the cereal would glide down my esophagus.
One of these days, they say, He will learn his lesson.
He won’t look down
and on that day he will the story goes,
make it across the vastness so easily
with a placard that reads “What the…?”
But before he reaches the Roadrunner
he will have achieved such momentum
He will sprout angelic wings,
fly high above that
Arizona painted cubist landscape,
straight up, never stopping.
In that flame, where Servetus died he learned the truth,
despite having lost his brain.
His skin separated, melted away
from his bones which cracked
like the hay beneath what were his feet.
There was the truth of the body and the spirit
nature of the flame and
the flaming heart pierced through with heat.
Zeal and politics.
What lay in that spark, in those ashes?
What was it he faced, when he had lost his face?
A cool darkness erupting from rock?
Sound of rushing water?
Or a perpetual melting that he couldn’t stop?
Maybe the fire went blue frozen and ceased
Maybe it all ceased.
Rocks, like almost anything,
Are mostly space.
They are as empty as a glass of water,
a hand on a shoulder,
the moment before amen,
spiraling galaxies.
But the rock you gave me is more space than most
Dotted with holes, you could run golden thread through.
In this rock, how much ocean could we pour
careful not to spill.
I look through one hole
straight at you.
Our conversations can be underwater sometimes.
The spaces among words, heavy
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.
And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.
All the sun long it was running, it was lovely, the hay
Fields high as the house, the tunes from the chimneys, it was air
And playing, lovely and watery
And fire green as grass.
And nightly under the simple stars
As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away,
All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars
Flying with the ricks, and the horses
Flashing into the dark.
And then to awake, and the farm, like a wanderer white
With the dew, come back, the cock on his shoulder: it was all
Shining, it was Adam and maiden,
The sky gathered again
And the sun grew round that very day.
So it must have been after the birth of the simple light
In the first, spinning place, the spellbound horses walking warm
Out of the whinnying green stable
On to the fields of praise.
And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house
Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long,
In the sun born over and over,
I ran my heedless ways,
My wishes raced through the house high hay
And nothing I cared, at my sky blue trades, that time allows
In all his tuneful turning so few and such morning songs
Before the children green and golden
Follow him out of grace.
Nothing I cared, in the lamb white days, that time would take me
Up to the swallow thronged loft by the shadow of my hand,
In the moon that is always rising,
Nor that riding to sleep
I should hear him fly with the high fields
And wake to the farm forever fled from the childless land.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.