Sheba and Solomon
Poetry, 1990, Black Moss Press, Windsor
Ilustrations by Virgil Burnett. Hand-printed by Morriss Printing Co., in Victoria, British Columbia.
Read:
A poem for voices
discovered in a case of sandalwood,
said once to have been
the property of the Queen of Sheba
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Listen:
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Read:
Sheba and Solomon
Armbound, bonded, they stand
bone on bone
warm breath circling nostril
and then they are
cloud and fire
queen and king
old newborn
the one
the always.Rapt
in a motion of frenzy
the king marches
strides east strides west
sees his world
and returns
to findher
singing
evokes him
calls him forth prepotent
to the one who stands now
before him.
They meet then decorously
history appointed
In prepotent velvet/
to velvet
woman and man
human motion
acting out
what has always been
bright horse/bright rider.