Galloping Man, image by Irene Koronas
The Galloping Man
and four other poems
The Galloping Man
1.
placing, a look
a gull
or, recreation, rewards or to
a mind
a perfect tool
or, law. At last
if it had been the turning of
a water wheel
2.
A rope, or green
standing in, closer
to hand, is lost, in arms
on seeing, early on, a hold,
or, in hand
a title, a given space
or,
as upon question, or,
appellation, a spur
or, so to convey
3.
in alternating causes, in
states and professions
a line on end
in cloth, in measure, in
anonymity and in parodies
to vary
or,
familiar. Passing fast, in jolly tapers and leagues
and in the interest of
descriptions, turning back
to rote places, to notes
and floss
a certain sun, and moon and
stars
4.
and out of house, a useless
emulation
getting to, or, not to use
a looking outward, in secret,
deciding
it is latent, and pause
and lasting into song. how does
a body know, here is a hand,
and here, is a sentence
or,
what’s riding on hearts
Tops
1.
a plum or knob, to see
purposes, prior to, or,
unlike a knob or fruit
a purchase, or gestalt
in time or in enumeration
the nature of a stick in
sand, the nature
of a rib, stuck upright in a
palette
before a spry, metaphysician
an accent, passing close,
unstoppered
2.
a poem, in simple measure
can say the names of
surrogate places,
can count the change in a
blind man’s cup
a day, in folds, moves,
asking leave to come and go
when having heard, are
setting works, in geography
to days
when having heard, are
breathing deeply
into cups
3.
going, is town to town,
changing hands
into cups
4.
in act and in objective
another sequence, or
condition, in nearness, to
spinning articles, and
arrival, at once
a wish or trespass
the entrance of a man.
And as was consonant with
sleep in daylight
after hurry, and pursuit,
after warp and corrugation
given,
to say, the saying of a fold,
this is a face
or,
this is a church, and, this
is a moment
in a wheel
a father, and a son, a wife,
or, inflection
recovering a no
William
1.
a sally,
out of hand, is giving
cupboard
to great aunts,
are likening boys, at
scrimmage,
to brocaded hemlines.
And later on,
dressing up is chipping in,
for visits
to quiet places.
2.
how, to overhear, is to
seeing
is to waking, early on
is to raising, a cloth
in ransom
residing, is remaining
to pedal far, ahead, of
shouts
3.
to such, a one, unremarked,
by misstep
or violet
pretending, these clothespin
soldiers
marching in place,
seated in relation to north,
can precede
in common,
what is now, and what is
giving way
are hidden, coming
to an end
or still unuttered, and
again. A voice
seeing to morning,
is hiding grahams into
umbrellas,
is hiding sneakers, into
manners,
and knowing, is someone, eye
to eye
or,
were otherwise unthought of
4.
a lawn, remote, in dither,
bottoms
and ever varying
in picture, in summer, upon
water and on clouds
to pedal far, ahead, of
shouts
Tilting
1.
a life, by other means, is
tilting
into corners
a life, by other means
can rest, or prise, or,
customer, a morning
an epitome, in parenthesis
a passage, or, in
correspondence, the solitary arc
now harking, and immovable
is making quote
2.
the sinuation, out of home
As much is harrowing,
or untried,
the eye, in community.
3.
the pilgrim, in tournament
is getting over, getting on
a life, by other means
is fitting words into corners
a life, by other means
is tilting after cranes
4.
and following, in salute
in all the forms of one,
whom, some, are
and aptly so
in rooms overlooking quiet
places. A chaplet, of prayer
and pension
of groundsmen, in repair, of
arms and legs
in repose
a going far, is taking hand
Attendant Docent
1.
a seeing, or turning, after
modesty, or departure
or when coming out of sleep
the principle, how, in
repeating
or as in, once, honestly, mistakenly
the corners.
for the persistence of a
passageway
2.
in aim and in pursuit
let upon, then, and to hold
hearing, can hear, or, that
is seen
touching, and looking, and
turning to account
the tenses, and the delicacy
And given to the absence of
intentions.
3.
being meddlesome, and astir
that it was she when she was
honey
or were not cousins, after
all
this is the suggestion, this
is the unseen
the Helen and Georgina
the lips that move
simultaneously
And this is the pleasure in
pursuit
at hand, in mind, the ideal
eye
4.
attendant, and at issue
in appeal, and in economy
A line on call.
and given to the absence of
intentions
being random, and audition,
familied
and in principle, so
—Gregory Vincent St.
Thomasino
Gregory
Vincent St. Thomasino was born in Greenwich Village, New York, and was raised
in both the city and in the country across the Hudson River in New Jersey. He
was educated at home, eventually to enter Fordham University where he received
a degree in philosophy. In 2009 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award
from the Doctor of Arts in Leadership program at Franklin Pierce University in
New Hampshire. His most recent volume of poetry is The Valise (Dead Academics
Press, 2012). He is founding editor of the online poetry journal, E·ratio.
