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POETRY: Song of the Blessed One: The Bhagavad-Gita, Canto 11: (6) Weaponsinnumerable numbing transnumerate numbers upon numbers of mouths mouthing mouths infinitykissing eyes aye I’s to I’s of I’s eyenumbers WONDERnumbers unnerving multiversal sightmumbling tumbled in numbers mouthsights nerveflaying numberstumbling membernumbing mindcrumbling thunderhumbling oh ah NUMBERS oh NUMEROUS ORNAMENTS bangles of immediacy galaxybracelets blackholenecklaces atomicconflagration-foiled-gems monstranced on the arcs of numberless rings on fingerings of infinities mindhammering windyellingwondrous celestialities DANCING mindbeckoning REJOICEWARNING of numbers numberhidden crouched in numberings noserings deafening earrings clusters of stars fostering clumps of galaxymatter refulgencies of adornment multi versebangle organs EYES of sight and grasp eyefacearms handseyesfingers momented in and out be/not be entrance exit gesture into fullnullity all combinations all-probable by eventuality all mouths with all hands identities launched and swamped in totentities everyface emergence in foams of spacefabric sink into foams of charge and exchange armsfingers spontaneously coming into and out of be/not be gesture roll farewell eyes be/not be themselves and not tiniest packets be/not be showered in grains of light neither there nor not cross flickers be/not be back forth by unknowable pathways over borders be/not be between ZERO and ONE leastexistent mostsolid channels of handeyefacelimbnowhereallseen UPLIFTED NUMBERBRISTLING EVERYWEAPON NUMBERPROSTRATED NUMBERS SUPEREYE with numerous mouths numberous eyes numbling womberous wondervisuals nullitous celestialornamental BEDECKING be/not be WHAT CAME AND WENT WITH SUCH RAW SPANGLING FROTH OF EXCHANGE BE/NOT BE numerous be/not be/be/not be celestialweapons be/not be/be not be lances pikes spearpoints forests in mirrors facing mirrors back to the edges where there is no edge BRANDISHED John Timpane John Timpane is the Media Editor/Writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He was the Inquirer’s Commentary Page Editor from 1997-2009. His poetry has appeared in Sequoia, Vocabula Review, Per Contra, Painted Bride Quarterly, 5_Trope, Northeast Corridor, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and elsewhere. His books include (with Nancy H. Packer) Writing Worth Reading (NY: St. Martin, 1994), It Could Be Verse (Berkeley: Ten Speed, 1995), (with Maureen Watts and the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University) Poetry for Dummies (NY: Hungry Minds, 2000), and (with Roland Reisley) Usonia, N.Y.: Building a Community with Frank Lloyd Wright (NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000), a chapbook of poems titled Burning Bush (Windsor, Ontario: Judith Fitzgerald/Cranberry Tree, 2011). He played and sang on Car Radio Dog’s CD Fetch! in 2008. He lives in central New Jersey with his wife, Maria-Christina Keller, copyeditor at Scientific American. They have a daughter, Pilar, 26, and a son, Conor, 23. » View all articles by John Timpane  John Timpane |
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