Monday, May 31, 2010

Bound

It seems fitting that this one was found amongst the pages of the red book. Interestingly, it was handwritten on a scrap of paper and not actually part of the text itself. The paper was old and brittle and the handwriting smudged but I was able to transcribe the verses thusly:

Bound

the body
without life
pinned to the earth

a sword
through the soul
standing in the dirt

the dead
travel fast
but not very far

with the spirit
willing, interred
in the flesh

and the flesh
chilling, in turn
in the earth

the rod is steeled
stern
in the ground

so quiet
the apparition

bound.

1 comment:

  1. Reminds me of that great poet Robert Liebling

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