Maria Damon & Alan Sondheim, Poem

Annus Mirabilis

In the year before the A.M. we were all asleep in the green of

Deep Lorca and his oranges and crackling blueness and

The sky's arc in marvelous tension

The sky's arc which cut the moon

The sky’s ark rode in search of the moon

A slice of orange a dull sheen on a Pontiac fender

The moon was a real slice of lemon pointing

The soft vowels of the birds begin each Capital line

The swallows in their linen nests their lined nexts

The noisy slippers of the dawn are heard like concave bells

And capitols dissolve the differentials of illicit curves

Maria, the derivation of the annular ring, the union swiftly annulled

Burrows beneath inconceivable thuds, barrows in unexpected fields

Buried beneath poetics fronds and tendrils push them aside

AND THAT THE monstrous the how-i-want-you tendrils In In asleep the of year before before

fronds were blue oranges A.M. we we A.M. Garcia Lorca were asleep in his next // text

asleep and his all and and sliced and Buried the oranges blued and the and The

breakage of which sky's arc cut /// cut The arc which which a A sky's the green

moon moon the orange the slice of of a sheen on orange dull dull curve cave

dull //// The Pontiac a a a a of soft Buried fender The soft a the each blurred

vowels of the of Capital Capital $$ begin each begin dawn noisy of test

line The The fender the the slippers of of noisy heard like the are arm

are are am capitols And dawn bells bells bells ///// of the dull capitols

dissolve the bells. illicit derivation differentials of illicit of corvid of

derivation derivation O illicit Maria, the Maria Mirabile, beneath O annular

of of the like ////// beneath ring Burrows Burrows annular Buried the ark

beneath thuds thuds thuds of poetics deprived inconceivable the

inconceivable the the land's end and /////// differentials of fronts

and beneath tendrils beneath tendrils asleep in the year A.M.

the barrows the barrens the swollen hollow next linen text cave

O Maria!

Yes! Annealed!

What the Thinder Sed:

"barca dulannularca orca moncorca dullicia aslicia Burrearcia

beforcia ria depria Theepria Buria Ponceivatia poetia aslentia

contia montia currontia eac Theac theac neac coreeneac neneac

ineac begineac aslineac oreac oncoreac yeac orciac bariac

Poncondriac curiac corc whiced liced dulliced inced aslinced

breentionced monced moonced fronced bleenstronced Burrearied

yearied annularied curreendried deried lipperied weried

orableepried mooncoreepried grendered illippered gred rivablued

arcaved inceived Burived holved arcapitolved swolved oncorved

Burved blurved Lorvid moncorvid Burvid curvid Mirannuland sheend

theend asleend arreend dullend aslenend ond tentiond mond moond

ard Gard Mard eard teneard annulard whice moonce neneakage

derineneakage dulareakage yeakage ange dulange lannulange inge

allike bellike Lorabillike Capitollike swollike annullike aslike

ble Lorable deprivable ile beforcitalle endrillowelle vowelle

noissolliceivabille barille earille capitolle swolle sle ne bene

orabilene enene asline eare dulare beforannulare bre dere

Pondere differe lippere vowere gre Garre larre Burre orablue

barcave orcave whiceive onceive asleeprive Burive whissolve

beforcitolve Capitolve swolve orve Lorve corve inconcorve

beforve Burve blurve Burrowe vowe sof whissof noissof ang dulang

vow-i-wannulang Ponstrow-i-wang vow-i-wang landeprilling heach

Theach sheach begineach dereach yeach deriach depriach hich lich

aslich corableeprivatich antich vow-i-wantich frontich th eath

neath yeath onceivath lipperivatheark dulark orcial rial barial

hicital Lorcitall holl hissoll whicitoll Capitoll capitoll Marm

annularrenearm larm dularm annularm bleen Andrilleen oncoreen

diffen allipperivablen tenendrivabilen nen benen inen differen

gren arren Andrin endrin derin werin vowerin aslendeprin

wereentialleeprin asleeprin Pon incon dulantion mon fron testron

dep Andep frow-i-wandep testrondep Theeprivabileep wereep

beforeep arreep ar Gar Thear vow-i-wannular der Ander dulander

fronder fer aslipper wer vower theaticiac's ariac's And's and's

ond's mond's sheakage's asle's Mirablue's sheends's tenst's hics

whics lics slics aslics incontics yeationtics moontics Ands ands

how-i-wands capitollow-i-wands Theends theends blurivatheends

aslends nends condrilenends ferends monds eakages theakages

neakages bleneakages belleneakages vow-i-wanges inges linges tes

dis whis nois als endrials beforcitals bels wels Maringestrowels

ils beginendrivabils sleeprils Burils alls swolls hols sols

benstronceivaticitalls bellowells Burrowells whissols whicitols

swols ens nens enens inens dulantioncons nentions mons frons

Burrons moonstrons ders fers lippers vow-i-wandeprillippers

aslippers wers dissollowers lants Mirants Lorants hissollow-

i-wants ents Theents diffents nents Ponts monts frous angestrous

testrous moonstrous monstronstrous lant-yous dulant-yous

bent-yous Lorent-yous ont-yous aslinconstront-yous wellowellows

illows dullows annullows Mirannullows frows nenstrows dissoft

whissoft noissoft moonticit barcit orcit Capit capit orcapit

sheakagest angest enst onst const moonst fronst Burronconstronst

breenext nenext brenext barrenext tenext inext linext allinext

aslinext derinext frou Marrou Burrou currou begingestrou ant-you

Mirant-you dullow-i-want-you vow-i-want-you grent-you Andrillow

frow currow onstrow sky disy whisy"

Whimsy dizzy what? No barcodes for you, little idiosink metabolic jerky-deck.

Struck out freeko blinks, but mind the buffalos.

Welcome to heaven now put on your blue suede shoes

Each page in rage annealed and revealed

Bequeath me beneath me breathe breathe in grief grief

Unfoundered upright briganded come-what-may

in May and usurious frequencies stranger interpolations with a

cut-crystal ballroom dancer frenzy. to aid or not to aid, that is the

badinage that cuts both ways. to band or to bathe, that is the crux of the cruisaid.

to barter or to bother, let me in where you will, your will be done in my bones and

veins. Odd grains against the times, the tree. Veritas in viriditas. Maniac in the boardwalk challenges.

I grunt you three witches but make it snubby.

Whimsy fizzled, hut? enchanted jodies to the moon.

Whoa! Star bodes lore, few spittle blink hyperbolic turkey wake.

Pluck, shout! Trees flow, sink, what blank? Winded tomatoes whlile

Hell comes to gilded Leavenworth lily, snow slut in your too frayed blues the end!

O Maria! Every moment sinks as I lean on you, your words and works entrance

While Cacoethes Scribend while we send time! I drop these words into the room:

itch voting, what crutches to we have while hutches slave against the salve's vales.

Perverbial imp rides forth at break of throbbing day may have had some drugs in the house.

"The itch vote carries the state of Georgia on its back" then drops into the mass of the Won One.

For votes and voters are a singularity, HIM, HYMN too, One God for all, one Cathedra!

We are on a precipice, permitted to make new languages

as long as we don't pray for the death of Presidents.

What else to add? Benjamin on the brink of Spain and elsewhere,

Celan, Aquin blood red descendent.

Angel Ancel Incel uncommonly sanguent.

The sky's arc which cut the moon

The sky’s ark rode in search of the moon

The sky's arc which cut the moon

The sky’s ark rode in search of the moon

The sky's arc which cut the moon

The red sky’s ark red red in the search of the moon

The red sky ark, in seach of moon, carrying oranges

Carrying us, to band or to bathe, will done in veins

Bones of ark, arc of bones

One or more Cathedra

Spells for vespers

Ribcage for lauds

Sext for angels

Slink

Blink

How far the throne, how far the throwing

O