Janet Hamill, Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith Bowery Poetry Club Nov08

At the launch of Janet Hamill's poetry book "Body of Water" in the Bowery Poetry Club, NY, 02Nov2008. Janet Hamill reads her poems with an accompaniment by Lenny Kaye and Patti Smith.

Body of Water

Standing by a body of water. Moving or standing still
in the dark green depths my soul finds its own level
Lost in a mirror of infinite margins.  
Ever sounding on and on.  
Perpetual arms pull me under light's silver sheets
tossed with wind and waves where a coiled muscle
gives up a perfect word.  
I come with only a fever to offer far from the dried carnations in summer's throat and certain birds that pierce the air with an agonizing cry I come to wash and be clean.  
To drown in my immensity
Baptized by a spray of distant sky.  
In sympathetic response the surface repeats the hypnotic patterns of my longing again and again.  
Swimming out to the breaking pages before me
with only a parched fountain to offer.   Far from the sun's
entrenched lullaby of insect music and the worried sleep
that parts with a film of sweat and dust.   I come to be carried
away through the charitable doors that open on the shore.


"Boy Blue"

Weary of waiting, blue boy Following the map of a vanished sea

Blue lights in the harbor blue sails carry you through twilights obscuring your lodestar with the dusk

Dark-adapted eyes in the period of blindness, between the gods departed and the gods yet to come all that is rare and excellent furnish your happy isles watchtower of white

All the souls companions all that you see the music of grazing horses plays on the shore

Shaped by the charity of the firmament blue boy gold scales begin to rise Over the water at the edge of the dreamline

prevailing winds favor a crossing go on ahead

The deepest chamber of the
night will restore your exhausted wings Go on ahead there, The shimmer of leaves breathes a song without words

there is pleasing variety in the moon and stars awaiting your imprint and corals lie lost from the track of the world

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[vlynkysr]

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[merlina74]

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