The Oracle Poems
Michael Greene, Professor
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Management Department
Banana Song
I like bananas
Because they have
No bones.
Besides,
Bunches are better
Than herds,
Or prides,
Or telephones.
And
Slip-on-skin,
Provides
Great Laughter.
Oracle
In the seventh month fire dances,
Flame bakes the sky.
Second month is for heavy clothes.
Each month brings something.
Turning though cold days and hot,
Who knows what direction?
Consult the skies,
Elemental words, auspicious springs.
We are spinning,
Spinning with this world.
Rude Oval
This place bludgeons the senses
sprint rip
aroma of hay
midway concess-
ionaires
shady bulk clatter
of hawkers
fugue on a gearbox
ELEGY
Old ones come to die.
Young ones too.
After the wail,
Rendering the words —
It's the same old oil —
I … you, stuttering between.
The verbís this & that.
I make you squirm.
You make me dodge.
CHASING CROWS
bacon day
suet sky
puppies chasing crows
beacon day
puzzle words
pleased with the caws
the dream body:
from Quick Poems:The Short Way
i've never acted
as if it was my
own house
the one that
I
actually lived in,
in a real world
or at least real enough
but the dream house
should have enough
room enough
for me
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