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Reversal of Fortunes Beyond the orchestrated placement of the child's hands, fingers laced among seemingly strewn flowers, in one of a number of cities where multitudes are allowed still to blossom, men out of uniform at the periphery photograph the bearers, whose burden seems light as a feather and might actually rise up, as borne on the Prophet's robes.
It's Sunday; it might be any day in the recording, everything soon to be solved, and above the newspaper, hard rain holds acid in the early light streaking my windows and disordered thoughts; puddles rise into rivers along the gravel walkways, stones vibrant and variously multitudinous as the world's children, as if bathed in oil.
[Who would treat my body to such soothing pleasure, sisters, mother, my grandmother? Better to have felt my limbs in their hands at some earlier time.]
The grandmother once played by his gramophone, a reversal of fortune, in a photograph of a life spent wholesomely in a quiet town.
Bearers, can you spare a dime, for travel, for the reversal of fortune of a child whose body is quiet-town-wholesome, for a spent life?
[In a tape recording played by my grandmother], on a gramophone, sisterhood to a spent life. Is a dime given for quiet travel, wholesomely?
[I have nowhere to go, my grandmother's quiet town?] The river reverses the fortunes of fishermen. The streets become littered with bodies and gramophones.
The repetitious recording of the river is vicious travel reversal of fortunes for spent children who play gramophones along parkways and quiet streets.
[A dead town, a town for mothers] to spend life's dime. Those who are wholesome are heard only on gramophones or on tape recorders, spared for quiet travel reversals.
[If they had just oiled my ruined body, if they had just laced long fingers between my piggy toes.]
The casual machine of childhood, a dime spun quietly for travel, vicious restrictions, a tape's reversal, so that one listens to fortunes spilling from grandmothers.
Or from rivers of gramophones, wholesome fishermen who are tape recorders, unfortunate children along ruined parkways. Each reversal turns littered streets to a spent quiet-town.
A dead town, a town or reversals and restrictions, of a life spent on rivers littered with spent fishermen, broken recorders. [I have nowhere to play, for fortune.]
The body is lifted now casually into the sun; the grandmothers beat at their clothing. Perhaps the flowers are falling into the hair of the sisters, the mothers who stumble into the cameras' perspectives. But the bearers have been recorded, these spent fishermen in this quiet town [a dead town] of reversals and restrictions. I am fortunate in this stormy day, these river pathways.
[If only it would rain to silence my grandmother and her gramophone, to wash away this spent litter. If only they could spin a dime for travel.]
My grandmother tells a story of reversal in a dead town, a tape recording of the police chief, now a mortician, his spent marriage, his son, his wife's gramophone.
[I fly for refuge unto the Lord of the daybreak], to the dead-town marriage motel's violent restrictions beside rivers littered with fortunes of dead children.
Reversal of a casual machine, the gramophone, multitudes of pills to commemorate their union. [That He may deliver me from the mischief of those things which He hath created.]
And rushes with his son on the spent dime, wholesomely in the quiet town, passing rivers littered with fishermen, tape recordings, photographs, everything soon to be solved.
No pills, but a barrel at her temple as the door opens again and again, vicious repetition. [And let not compassion toward them prevent you from executing the judgment.]
Now the litter is lowered down into the quiet town, the body wrapped up in the flowers, child-size in the winding-sheets. Yet the vicious recording continues in photographs, gramophones of the grandmothers, tape recordings of the sisters. A dead town of the mothers, everything soon to be solved not by fishermen, seemingly strew flowers on the unfortunate banks of reversed rivers, not by the spinning of dimes spared for quiet travel or arrival into His taped presence [who hath created man of congealed blood] repetitiously recorded in a litter of gromophones along spend parkways.
A quiet town of police chiefs and morticians, rivers along gravel walkways, vibrant and variously multitudinous as the world's children bathed in oil.
A dead town, a town of reversals and restrictions, of violent fortunes in gramophones and honeymoon litter, so that a wife can spin dimes for a smoking barrel.
The repetitious recording of the reversed river is vicious highway of the bearers lifting burdens on the Prophet's robes. Those who are wholesome are heard only on gramophones.
The casual machine of childhood travel, flying for refuge, passing by parkways and rivers littered with spent fortunes. The strewn fishermen, who might be fathers, are restricted.
Out of uniform at the periphery, photographs, on a dime spent for litter of dead children, broken gramophones and mothers. Sudden reversal of the casual machine, doth not prevent them.
[He will assist you against your enemies and will set your feet fast, but not for travel, that reversal of a fortune in my piggy toes. If they had just laced long fingers between them, had oiled my body, even with slick sludge in rivers littered from passage of His amphibians through them, who is provided with everything and suffers not the work of any worker.]
The rain releases its fortunes into the dead town. Petals fall like bright dimes into the sisters' hair. The river reverses again and is cleansed of litter.
His grandmother's gramophone and tape recorder are spun on a dime quietly, for travel, for maps of the town no longer viciously restricted to men out of uniform.
No longer restricted to police chiefs and morticians, their sons, and their wives reversing fortunes of pills for smoking barrels at the doorways of marriage motels.
The casual machine of childhood, wholesome fishermen beyond the barricades, everything soon to be solved. The rain reversed the fortunes of the dead town's creation.
A quiet town, rain water, burdens light as a feather. In your last dream, He will lift you on the Prophet's robes and will admit you into gardens, through which rivers flow. |