The Third Fall of Race Brook

Canto I

~ Fears, Faiths and Raw Kinesthesia ~

- 1 / narration -

The Boston sun swooned then loomed by late afternoon

Perforating the overhung gloom as well the ashen cast

Topped fast the cathedral steps by jovial guests, hip to hip

As minutes slipped to commencement’s fits and dithers

Jitters and twitters in depths and odd chimes in minds

Till liturgical rhymes called the silence, ushered the hush

Hence the push and the rush, urging each by a touch

Due to conductor’s queues thus betwixt congested pews

Paraded and sashayed the maidens, clutching garlands

And gripping sprays, as staid the ushers in formal view

Hence turned per passing hand, resolved mid the stands

Within the sconces of tender petals and rendered flames

Gamed then chased by lads and lasses in suits and laces

Bearers of joyous rings endowed by rapturous things

Prompting the elder king, accordingly, leaned he to kiss

Soon to be missed keenly, his young fair daughter

- 2 / reflection -

Anticipative eternities arousing

Eventides swelling mid surreal gasping

Twilights fluxing and flexing 

Tantamount to gatherings

 Arousing the midnight druidic sighing

Ella esparce las pasiones y él desviste las razones

Huele los muslos y las manos

Acaricia las uvas y los surcos húmedos

Aspira el perfume brumoso del enredo intenso

Overwrought amassing of prolix veil

Fustian trail and eternal appliqué

Then white cloisters of virginal premonitions

As bridal falls espy to stones low and cold

Mooting the vagabonding

Along tiles, traces, and cathedral mazes

While candlelight chases

Shadowy marionettes and hand-puppets

Across the lit portiere

As Terpsichore casts ballerinas

Upon the dream-curtains

Sundering conscious and subconscious

The velvety preoccupations

Inside hot young minds feverish

More supernal than lecherous

Effervescent spontaneity moreover

(Gems that curses rush o’er)

¡Oh! Los calidoscopios sexuales de las paradojas

Todos los inhalan, tragan y comparten

Como vides sedientas salvajes 

Entrelazan los brazos las piernas y los dedos

Intercourse coveting lustfully

In midst of sensuality and amity

Double to carnality and spirituality

Withal propriety and frivolity

Determinately spun, deliberately wound

And impetuously sprung

Ah the intensity and the lucidity

Oh god, the thrusting unison

Collaborative trust and co-active musk

Hence all melding fears and faiths

The fusions by emotive combustion

About the volatility and certainty

Thus heaving breasts on swelling chest

Ancillaries to affiances

Liturgically shrouded exhilaration

Expeditiously denuding 

In a twinkling of a troubadour’s eye

Her conjugal gown's undoing

The actualities as prerequisite piers

And girders to the formalities

Shallow rituals for clay vessels who mutter

Vows in rote and meter

Paralleling prose duping poems

Aside snickers of lads then fidgets of lasses

And the beclouding of stained glasses

Lorgnettes and tall stints

Of gents, madams, and the damned

- 3 / narration -

Pined and marked emotively by Beth’s summarization

An epoch de novo and timely commemoration

Toward life’s columns and rows then pillars and stows

Hence the requisite cruxes and roads' exigent crosses

Nostalgically, upon her father’s arm she seized

Subsequently, the congregated pews they cleaved

In the midst of soft storms oddly of ritual forms godly

The white train unstained as appointed melodies sustained

While patience of the twain waned on harmonic chord

In accord to the nonsensical wait and clerical state

- 4 / reflection -

O the lovely sedition

Due to goddamn traditions

Adroitness of complexities

Gawking as Cain at Abel’s crimson

Coveting like Esau the right

Like commodious praxes

And mendacious practices

So be it, so it fuckin’ seems

Thus the divine heraldry

Benevolently bestowing

Upon mankind (the cursing)

Beast afoul and fowl afield

In fatted lands and thinner air

The wretched hating

The despising then endearing

And enchanting lust as well

Though often it softly turns

As bodies churn, stir, and writhe

Ah, Love indigenous