Harry Aron Poetry

JOHN MOTLOW

Fall leaves

On October lawns

Sprinklers caressing

Hot days

And he shot himself

What could he have been

Dead

They hoped for him

Some in his back

Others for his life

They hoped

What could he have been

What he was

Sprinklers cooling

Parched leaves

Colored as leaves

Are

In

10-6-65.

Spring 5/70

Water lilies

open

in a closed world

sparkle over

duckling

scurrying

toward that

barking dog

life

Star like

to the day

not seeing

the 5/45 AM

nite

dew

falling

for another chance

markings

surface

lets shadows

thru

inverts palm

whose sway

tempts lilies

out of nite

hides all

day.


On the Walk

cold

colors

the winter

rake

alighted

leaves

on cemented

ways

canvass

Fall

hurried

wanting

early to

speak of

season

ease

winter

memory

summer

pattern

glance

sound

walk

fill

courtyards

take confession

at gutter's

grill

cleared

for time

ahead

trucked

to dump

a year

in beauty.


A the Bar 1/70

New Years

eve

snaps

training

wheels to

Badge 823s

hog

drowning

infractions

in

the after

hours

club

before

clutching to

citations


AFTER EVIL

at the bar

823s

shots go

down like

any throat

saddle

and

gun

away

man.


The Little Sisters of the Poor

Old age

arms

infancy

curtains

bed

nite stand

Poor

Little Sisters

gather

entrees

into death

as if

a dream

needed no

space

and

bed

a fitting

measure

for

a lifetime

of hope

poor little sisters

as if

the beginning

and end

shouldered

by common

space

allowed

a curtain

to be drawn

on life.


Early Grass 1/70

Cattle

brown eyes

only for

the green

at I.S. 80

corral

edging

Turner

mountain

Mondrian

bellies

on

winter

early grass

grouped

in

gully

tails

fanning

monoxide

to the

trucks.


MHAS 12/30/69

50 years

draw across

memory

love

loss

a dream

with eyes

of hope

brought

shattered

into future

50 years

burst

into question

right

wrong

laid short

by life

opened by

hope

traced by

memory

out of hand

which held

a dram

50 years a

ago

today

in

single step

made light

by love.


Eucalyptus by the window

Some woman is

going to

die

her last

words to

that

cut tree

a branch

at a

time

sent to

grow

Some woman

is going

to die

not she

from memory

not sight

a stroke

cut vision

from memory

some woman is

going to

die

Oedipus

plucked of

vision

by the stoke

of life

Some woman

is going

to die

in life.


Come in 11/10/69

I've

seen your

smile

where others

rage scowl

out life

year tears

where daily

life

scorches

water man

flower his

darkness to

bloom

in your garden

weeds are wanted

brush sharply

against your

beauty

to look

over petals

softly colored

as love

that quickly

missing

the urge

to be

blind to

your smile

the fragrance

of your soft

touch

blown past

their nostrils

I see your

smile

in the radar

of your walk

out of a

garden

to my gate.


Into the Nite I.S. 80

Stop

The red sun

of traffic

pulls us

West

tail lights

guide a

pass

Icon

specify

nite is

here

Haze-hidden

hills

charged by

flammable

trucks

double hitches

connecting

the state

Ashmens

motorcycle

patrol

under

scimitar

crescent

and plastic

visor

reflecting east

filtering West

8 strong

16 wheeled

straddling hogs

behind

the milk trucks

the sinking

sun

clears hills

into the nite

stop.


STORM

Clouds

cares blue

kissed

in you

fold

on blue

sunlite

glow

in you

moved

in you

winds

close

blue

open

lips

drift

in you

edged

blue.


U.S.A.

Easy Rider

into death

Main

Street

8 to 5

throttle

up

strapped

to

bar

exhaust

riding

past

Main Street

dropped

into

seat

on

past

main street

into death

easy rider.


Vigil

sc

Turned by fire

4 angels

dance as

shadows in

the reeds of

summer

guiding

travel to

spring

erect by the

road

on the mantle

pointing a way

for fire

ringing each

round

captured

watching

over our bed

dancing into

our parts

as the nite

melts our

vigil.


Roses

jt

Roses

yellow vased

stand by

beauty our

glance

fragrance our

embrace

in that ancient

posture

ruled by

Kabuki

in hues

pedals

lift our

bodies to

each other

by roses

on white

sheets.


Easy Evil 4/67

Dots

circle a life

Raised around

Noting

more

Than a point

in line

Aspect

becomes feature

Hallmark

Raining

unreason

To center

Shooting

to

the side

Years of

reason

impulse

sex

As easy evil

making a point

Circumference

of man

Halting

entry of doubt

clarity

As easy evil

Fells man

into dot

in life.


The Last Tango in Psychology

Caught with our truth down

confreres looking for a new

badge

the old arrest at nomothesis

whistled off the field

as role models circling the universe

brought into wester conduct

by the chief of police

medicine fronting for what

it know not

Employing authority as truth

mathesis as savior

positing person in

an end of singularity

offering a self unrelated

to moments

but anchored

in the dreams of old

person free at last

in the chains of knowledge

unvoiced in the idiographic

yet political/moral/miliary

what drum will beat

in the next century?


The Snow is Gone

The winter leaves

The grass won't turn

And love is all

The snow is gone

The leaves will come

And love is Fall

The grasp is full

Love is complete

The winter leaves

The leaves turn red

Lord is surround

The snow is gone