Stationery

JM, Old World, 4.24.09

Rather than trivialize the longer efforts, I will be sending out my more artful, more labored, more favored correspondence on stationery going forward.

The Hanged Man

~
Searched and seized, The Hanged Man hums,
first made mad by the whole wide world.
His Tau a good bar for a traitor—

—The Hanged Man, dangling upside down
sees birds on nearby telephone wires
as whole notes on a treble staff; he notes

melodic birds prefer mad perches,
underpasses, wires to trees.
His coins drop to the ground. He hums

the melodies birds perch and chirp
on buzzing wires, then falls to earth
by gravity’s fiat, free and redeemed.

So do hang on, remember, love: Upside down
you too are redeemed; your torture
the world you knew before your hanging.
~