I’ve been down with the flu for the last couple of days, so rather than coming up with anything new, I’m taking this opportunity to share the work of others.
About AJ Strong as a poet, I can’t really say enough. He bends words and moods into patterns that frequently make my head spin. Always challenging, always insightful. As with the poem offered below, he’s frequently at his best when he’s using heavy repetition like a metronomic, hypnotic bass line to drive home his internal rhythms.
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stop time
stop time
double now
the serpent winds around the hours
like the swirls in the candy of your love
fruit
simple doesn’t describe the passage
of ingenuity that drips from your eyes
heat
higher and higher the winds of passion climb
within the vortex of your imagination
honey
stop time
stop time
double now
sex and you is like religion and i must
bow and pray to your canvas of invention
sugar
magic is a word for dreamers and poets
like the sound of your adventures on me
steam
stop time
stop time
double now
distance is no obstruction to your touch
silk on glass running down the spine of motion
high
the fruit grows on the tree in the summer heat as the honey flows into bowls of sugar creating the steam that makes me high on you
stop
time
– AJ Strong
© 2008, AJ Strong
Thank you so very much. You are the man!