Dreaming America

Copyright © 2010 Ernest Bloom.

Generations of men and women with
Best intentions in their hearts accomplished
Extraordinary evil throughout these lands, but
Spanish moss shags down thick from overhanging,
Hoary live oaks whose gossipy roots
Interdigitate and synapse below the underbelly of
America's gently dreaming mind.

This is the cluttered basement housing
All of our best dreams. This is the wellspring out of which
All embryonic, great notions trace their germinal headwaters.
This is magic's voodoo beauty that can't be denied, that
Can't be conjured into any physical form without the
Breaking of hearts and
Concordant disturbance of our cherished
Genealogical ghosts from their white marble mausoleum temples,
Their ageless voices whispering to us,
Sometimes trumpeting, in
Unintelligible murmurings.

This is the primeval collective unconsciousness of the slumbering
American mind.

Diverging Tectonic Plate Boundaries

Copyright © 2010 Ernest Bloom.

We've ventured far into that foreign land
That lies beyond the perimeter of words, where
The dazzle and sizzle and razzamatazz of neurotransmitters
Prompts wondrous strange flowers to bloom, where

Time's unpeeled and rivers enter oceans, violent
In their meniscal conflicts. Madness' abyss
Opens up unexpectedly at our feet, and we must say
(As all artists must say when eternity
Yawns its bejeweled maw at them):

Alleluia! The
Beginning times are near.