Our Minds Boarded up
Our minds boarded up
with rough planks of this world,
we do not know
whether the sun was a magnifying lense
crowded with giant ferns
which hummed and whirred
like closely packed electrical circuits,
or a lifeless bellows camera
dropped in an icy marsh,
the film ripped out;
or was it a shiftless traveller
which stopped here and there along the way
and often
as he sat in the shadow of a firelit room
pulled an irresistable apple
from his oily coat
and laughing quietly,
placed it in full view
of a small circle of men?
It is not easy to see the sun
in every man;
that the blood is like the rain
in the roads of southern France,
bogging all commerce
in mud.
Poem taken from the chap book Strange Attractors. First edition July 1993. 200 issues. Co-producer: Mark Stueve of Old Erie Street Bookstore Cleveland, Ohio. Front cover art by Harland Ristau. Lettering by Big Web. Back cover art by Dan Nielsen. Text artwork by t.l. & Carolyn Kryss & Hilary Krzywkowsk. Co-edited by Mark Weber & Mark Stueve. Photo of t.l.kryss by mark weber 18may89. (c)1993 by Zerx Press & t.l. kryss, 5016 Inspiration Dr, SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108