The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/24/2009)

[RetroLounge]

In the Binary Alleys of the Lion’s Virus

Sorrento, your sun is light yellow lemonskin, your sky
Purling out like a farther surf on which I ride away
From that secret in a German town. I left behind
A dragon of enigma to fester there without me, I left
A small god ticking like a time bomb: a tiny jade statue suspended
By magnets in the vulva of a prehistoric temple. Here
In the oyster of your mornings I wake as lead.
                                                               Once I was a knight
Who rode out in search of grail, now I am just a husk
Of armor with the grey squid of memory inside—I have forgotten
Land and tongue, I have forgotten everyone. Only I see
An emblem, some kind of lion arrant on ash-argent ground
A creature I greeted once in a dream: yes, at the crossroads of the hallowed grove
He kissed me—and must have slipped this curse between my lips.

Monica Ferrell

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RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. ~

:donut:

(it's in his kiss)

[RetroLounge]

2. Earworm Alert!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdTAbNWyDQg&feature=related

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[BlueIris]

3. Ahhh, tasty. Plus, it taught me a new word ("arrant," if you must know).

:-)

[RetroLounge]

4. Mine was Argent

"like silver; silvery white."

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[Chorophyll]

5. Musical and majestic, but...

I'm too dumb to git it. :dunce:

[RetroLounge]

6. ...

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