Magnolia Song & Tightrope

Magnolia Song

by Wrulf Gunkl VonGlashaus

(for The Beloved and in honour of Arthur Rimbaud)

… the magnolias are far away – still, I sing, begging

them for bridges to

brood with stanzas of butterflies

in the suffocation around and

heat mocking the sea where once we walked the shore

beneath the cruel commas of hawks

showering seraphimic curses,

pink roses upon storms

flung upward from spotted, inverted baskets, northern Iranian

mountains

aching

praying

wandering

the cavern between the olive-minuet of your eyes and

mine absconding their color from above and knitted by

anguished waves stumbling, floundering

into lunar mercury,

the slant of scouring rain

throwing blue into our faces

in cadences

dribbling from

lemons and leaves of tea, strong with riots

of black peppers hurting our tongues

along the central street

of our knowing, speaking

silence

without riddles

yet wrapped about our shoulders

with brazen mysteries hovering above

the staring magnolias

which now have crowded in...

… though I still sing

and always will...

… of you...

***

Tightrope

by Wrulf Gunkl VonGlashaus

Sh-h-h!... the cat leaves feathers of silence

for footprints as she glides,

and refraining from knocking her off-balance,

the wind holds its breath

because it is hypnotized

by the grace and mystical communion

of cat-feet with the tightrope of the moon

along the windowsill of night...

Sh-h-h!... even the silence is mesmerized!...

All poems © 2011 Wrulf Gunkl VonGlashaus

Wrulf Gunkl VonGlashaus was born in 1950 and started writing creatively at a young age. He's published a novel and a collection of original asphorisms, as well as written flash fiction, poetry and short stories. Currently, he is Assistant Director of The Pueblo Poetry Project, in Pueblo, Colorado, USA.

Magnolia Song is a surrealistically symbolistic portrayal of a lover and the poet in Azerbaijan, not far from the Iranian border.