Motion of a Bloom in the Exorcist Deluge – Ryan Bry
September 17, 2022
Dance
Dance a whole canticloon
weave patterns through the school
sieve the solar stars I can’t see
thru a dress impressed by the page
streaks of hair flinging fair
to known what I’ve had done
and smiling ear upon ear to bring
a light to one unscathed.
Holy contention
Breaking almost everything into being
except YHWH, Who Is Being
holy uptake of broken recoil
holy swallow of spit out pills
holy particle of everything that bled
holy belongs to Yah everything apart
holy curse be all once blessed
holy super human doing jackal on the screen
holy nation that somehow remembers God
holy patience that explodes because
holy is the lamb that chews a bite of grass
holy lamb that bleeds dialing his blood above
violent as the lion whose claw is gold as a canary
holy as the swarm of its feathers into a single wingflight
holy are you, made by Yahweh in blessings eternal
The long winter of Raphael Truevo’s eyes
how he always stabbed his chicken
fork first and whispered a smile
like it didn’t matter how many times
that was Raphael Truevo, and it was in his eyes
he could go sailing on a plate of grease
he could mesmerize a pet grey monkey
or the other way around
my friend the antichrist wants credit
for this psalm
but he’s not the antichrist
and because he says so
he’s my friend
I’m going into the wilderness of my thought
with nothing holy but love for YHWH
from a heart needing an instruction manual
and a soul fizzing like the buzz of mountain dew
the wilderness is prepared as well
like and with a table made of salted stone;
at times I am light blinded that pinches
my eyes and the sand
to speed to and away from my face
I am not the man that started this poem
I have more accomplished and think less
of pedestals, and gazes into the wilderness
The music I hear glides over me like river water
Everything you were going thru
rushes like river water over me
cobblestone underneath my back
like 1800s movies river horses
trod around my cool breath,
a stone rumbling with salamander
baby toys out of my mouth