TRANSPORT OF SORCERERS
Hello this one’s for the cadre
of the demon-born, the überman
in the dark mirror, Pollux
to my Castor; just a kouros
on a Saturday night, no moon
in the sky but the knuckles white
& inked MOOT LIFE; this is
for Big Black playing in a dorm
room, I don’t go there now
but I hear they sung
the loyal dog is dead & to sleep,
perchance to be unironically
Byronic after the appalling peal
of the blue bells & when I die
I’ll go back to the attack on
the chime of the dread hour
when the dead do not rise
but prowl the long ago stage
with hip-slung basses long past
the removal of the audience.
Get them out of there
with your hydraulic lift,
this one’s for the trusty steed
now just a goat with
powers of flight limited
to whims of exhausted fathers
strapped with infants in Baby
Bjorns. This is for when
there’s PCP in the skunk weed &
the wallpaper starts
to shimmer. Footsteps
outside the window, a glowering
hero defined solely by the enormity
of his forehead. Inside
there are wine, women, scripts
being read on spec & to go
home, to go is to keep
nothing but his own counsel,
his keep a cold & lonely place.
Collaborative poem from the chapbook DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL by Mark Lamoureux & Chris McCreary.
Mark Lamoureux lives in New Haven, CT. He is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: It’ll Never Be Over For Me (Black Radish Books, 2016), 29 Cheeseburgers / 39 Years (Pressed Wafer, 2013), Spectre (Black Radish Books 2010), and Astrometry Orgonon (BlazeVOX Books 2008),. His work has been published in print and online in Elderly, Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Fourteen Hills and many others. In 2014 he received the 2nd annual Ping Pong Poetry award, selected by David Shapiro, for his poem “Summerhenge/Winterhenge.” He teaches at Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, CT. His chapbook, Maris McLamoureary's DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL, co-authored with Chris McCreary, was published by Empty Set Press on Halloween 2017.
Chris McCreary is the author of four books: [neüro / mäntic], undone : a fakebook, Dismembers, and The Effacements. His review of Arrive On Wave, the Collected Poems of Gil Ott, is forthcoming in Tripwire. His chapbook, Maris McLamoureary's DICTIONNAIRE INFERNAL, co-authored with Mark Lamoureux, was published by Empty Set Press on Halloween 2017.