BOSTON POEMS

By Will Barnum
The Dancing Poet

I.

Centaurs
on the
Roof

Estuaries
spill
Cannibal Eyes
upon the naked
Street

A lioness
Scatters jewels
among
The doll's
crockery

     
II.

Felicity
bears idleness
without
hands

Light
is extinguished
under stone
arches

I walk
left handed
into
dandy
A beggar before
The Idol

     
III.

I
kneel
in a
fountain of
stones

Coronary
Flowers
deflect
Their
Petals
Through
The grape's
Arbor


     
IV.

Motion
held the
city
Tigers

relinquish their
ferocity with
Madonna's
blessing

Strictly
between slaves
Harlots
harbour Diamonds