THE TUNNEL OF LOVE

 


              In this
              poem
              beginning here               certain elements
                                                    are gathered 
                                                    together                         in a pattern


              born of a space
              and a time                     uniquely equal
                                                   to now 


                      bearing
                                           on the flow       

                                                                  of space and time
 
                  that constant current
                                             of image & idea 
                                                                 that dances
                                                                                   with the eye
                                     across  the  page



                         these elements of verbal architecture
                              not only rearrange our mental furniture
                                     but also paint the walls of our worlds
                                            in yet undiscovered colors
                                                 or cut new windows in the mind
                                                                   to see through!


                                                    or, to be wholly
                                                    specific, here,
                                                    in the Tunnel of 
                                                                  Love


                                          even though we suspect it be the ghosts
                                                         that are real, and we,
                                                              the shadows,
                                            we hold one another in close embrace








Hyampom (1980)

                                                             Copyright© 1980, Allan Bazar