Of Guns and Gurus
There
was much
to learn in the
folds
of
sleep,
when the night rain rained,
down on my thin skeleton
In other realms
the fields of summer
were
in
adornment
Clad in black I walk the streets
of yr. city,
where once I walked,
In white,
In
White
In
the thin line
in the white meadow
red rode the heart chakra
into
the
millennium
I didn’t mean to be a girl or boy
I like boys said my
Mother to the bank teller
after
my
father,
died,
After
my father died,
& I
met
you.
Louise Landes Levi is a poet/translator and musician. Recent works: The Book L (Cool Grove Press 2010), Love Cantos 1-5 (Jack in Your Box Press 2011), Crazy Louise or La Converdazione Sacra (Station Hill 2016), Where I Stand in Angel (Il Bagatto, 2018). Recent recordings: From the Ming Oracle (Sloow Tapes, 2014), Ikiru or the Wanderer (Oaken Palace, 2018) & Colloidal LOVE (Audio.Mer, 2018). Photo by Ira Cohen.