19: ANTI/HEROES
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino: William
1.
a sally,
out of hand, is giving cupboard
to great aunts,
are likening boys, at scrimmage,
to brocaded hemlines.
And later on,
dressing up is chipping in, for visits
to quiet places.
2.
how, to overhear, is to seeing
is to waking, early on
is to raising, a cloth
in ransom
residing, is remaining
to pedal far, ahead, of shouts
3.
to such, a one, unremarked, by misstep
or violet
pretending, these clothespin soldiers
marching in place,
seated in relation to north, can precede
in common,
what is now, and what is giving way
are hidden, coming
to an end
or still unuttered, and again. A voice
seeing to morning,
is hiding grahams into umbrellas,
is hiding sneakers, into manners,
and knowing, is someone, eye to eye
or,
were otherwise unthought of
4.
a lawn, remote, in dither, bottoms
and ever varying
in picture, in summer, upon water and on clouds
to pedal far, ahead, of shouts
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino has a degree in philosophy from Fordham University. His poetry has appeared in Barrow Street, jubilat, The Germ, Washington Review, papertiger media and online at In Posse Review, 5_Trope, Rattapallax--FuseBox, BlazeVOX, GutCult, Word For/Word and can we have our ball back? Poems are forthcoming in LYNX and Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. His e-books are Go (xPress (ed), 2003) and Go Mirrored (xPress (ed),2003).