A Transfiguration With The All
The History of the World is like the moaning
of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie.
It ricochets through the atmosphere orbiting
beyond our solar system, a dizzying,
exuberant and exhausting flight;
a vast bed seamed and scarred
into a thousand conflicting channels,
bursting into phrensied convulsion --
heaving, boiling, hissing -- gyrating
in gigantic and innumerable vortices,
all whirling and plunging into space.
In a single day these hairs have changed
from a jetty black to white. Epochal tableaus:
female enslavement, Cruciifixion,
religious wars, Columbus sailing past,
the French Revolution, the Internet,
and of course, Occupy Wall Street.
…and what are the easy answers to our
kids’ Most Burning Questions? Why is the moon
sometimes out during the day? Why, oh, Why
is the sky blue? Or, Are there aliens?
How much does Earth weigh? … and…
How do airplanes stay up? Afraid to say,
how should I know? We pretend no one knows!
I tremble at the least exertion,
and am frightened at a shadow.
Suddenly, I am one with the bright sun,
transformed into a vaporized ray
hurtling into vast space becoming one with the stars.
Below, an aging lioness nurtures her cubs
and lets loose a formidable roar.
~John Daleiden, Phoenix, AZ in the Sonoran Desert
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Edgar Allen Poe: Text 1 Karina History of the World: Text 2 Neal
Easy Answers: Text 3 John
Pastisched: non-highlighted: John used these words to tie the three borrowed texts together to create a new Found Poem
Free Verse: A Transfiruration With The All
The
History of the World is like the moaning
of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie.
It ricochets through the atmosphere orbiting
beyond our solar system, a dizzying,
exuberant and exhausting flight;
a vast bed seamed and scarred
into a thousand conflicting channels,
bursting into phrensied convulsion --
heaving, boiling, hissing -- gyrating
in gigantic and innumerable vortices,
all whirling and plunging into space.In a single day these hairs have changed
from a jetty black to white. Epochal tableaus:
female enslavement, Cruciifixion,
religious wars, Columbus sailing past,
the French Revolution, the Internet,
and of course, Occupy Wall Street.…and what are the easy answers to our
kids’ Most Burning Questions? Why is the moon
sometimes out during the day? Why, oh, Why
is the sky blue? Or, Are there aliens?
How much does Earth weigh? … and…
How do airplanes stay up? Afraid to say,
how should I know? We pretend no one knows!
I tremble at the least exertion,
and am frightened at a shadow.
Suddenly, I am one with the bright sun,
transformed into a vaporized ray
hurtling into vast space becoming one with the stars.
Below, an aging lioness nurtures her cubs
and lets loose a formidable roar.
of a vast herd of buffaloes upon an American prairie.
It ricochets through the atmosphere orbiting
beyond our solar system, a dizzying,
exuberant and exhausting flight;
a vast bed seamed and scarred
into a thousand conflicting channels,
bursting into phrensied convulsion --
heaving, boiling, hissing -- gyrating
in gigantic and innumerable vortices,
all whirling and plunging into space.In a single day these hairs have changed
from a jetty black to white. Epochal tableaus:
female enslavement, Cruciifixion,
religious wars, Columbus sailing past,
the French Revolution, the Internet,
and of course, Occupy Wall Street.…and what are the easy answers to our
kids’ Most Burning Questions? Why is the moon
sometimes out during the day? Why, oh, Why
is the sky blue? Or, Are there aliens?
How much does Earth weigh? … and…
How do airplanes stay up? Afraid to say,
how should I know? We pretend no one knows!
I tremble at the least exertion,
and am frightened at a shadow.
Suddenly, I am one with the bright sun,
transformed into a vaporized ray
hurtling into vast space becoming one with the stars.
Below, an aging lioness nurtures her cubs
and lets loose a formidable roar.
~John Daleiden, Phoenix, AZ in the Sonoran Desert
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