Cutter Streeby
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 07:08PM Cutter Streeby is a graduate from the University of Riverside, California. He attends King's College, London, where he is studying for an MA in modernist babble. When not brain-dead from the expansion of literary space, he writes poems.
Obbligato, an Aria
I have to play the king to win the war,
but my soloists are nervous.
the director bow-drills eyes
notes dripping on the marble.
clearing spider throat webbing,
he breaks the movement’s back.
the corridor is stilling voices.
pews tremble, veined in hands,
clinging desperately to church.
booted footsteps, Gothic light.
while I light votive words,
praying quietly for wings,
the baton raps, taps
the blood beat of the world.
Sarasate smiles,
earthquakes tear the sky.
the rock of my soul cracks:
spreading an orchestra on the sea.
and the China dances in the cabinet.
trilling up and down the scales.
A Lily Growing in Drummond Castle Gardens
I stood on top of a tower,
the old, venerated kind
that guards Medieval hills
against marauders that won’t come again,
the kind where you can look
down and count stone blocks still
swimming against the grass and
know for sure how long each has been there,
know who stood where before you
in exactly what spot,
because you’ve read about it
on the bronze plaque in the courtyard.
I stood there looking back
into a wind that
pulled music from the battlements,
and drummed from the turret’s ancient lid
a challenge
against the vanity of
towers
and wished I could
unlearn everything I know.
Reader Comments (2)
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