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Powerful and inspiring poetry Ganesh Trichur > From: mikedjya...@msn.com > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:36:08 -0700 > Subject: [Marxism] they feed they lion/poem by phillip levine > To: tkgan...@hotmail.com > > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > > > > > > I heard him read this poem. A great poem. Out of burlap sacks, out of > bearing butter, > Out of black bean and wet slate bread, > Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar, > Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies, > They Lion grow. > > Out of the gray hills > Of industrial barns, out of rain, out of bus ride, > West Virginia to Kiss My Ass, out of buried aunties, > Mothers hardening like pounded stumps, out of stumps, > Out of the bones' need to sharpen and the muscles' to stretch, > They Lion grow. > > Earth is eating trees, fence posts, > Gutted cars, earth is calling in her little ones, > "Come home, Come home!" From pig balls, > From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness, > From the furred ear and the full jowl come > The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose > They Lion grow. > > From the sweet glues of the trotters > Come the sweet kinks of the fist, from the full flower > Of the hams the thorax of caves, > From "Bow Down" come "Rise Up," > Come they Lion from the reeds of shovels, > The grained arm that pulls the hands, > They Lion grow. > > From my five arms and all my hands, > From all my white sins forgiven, they feed, > From my car passing under the stars, > They Lion, from my children inherit, > From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion, > From they sack and they belly opened > And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth > They feed they Lion and he comes. > > > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/tkganesh%40hotmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
