Axe Handle Collective is proud to present the work of the N. Portland, Mexican-American poet Robert Basilisk, we will be posting a previously unpublished poem from his “chapbook in progress”, The Eternal Jukebox of the Heart each Monday. Robert Basilisk is a Visceral Realist. Enjoy!
Cascade
a downpour of blue
raven’s claws, torrents of
time christen each hour
before coyote (himself) tricked skyfather (himself)
everything always happened at once.
he put a piece of himself
dressed as a lovely maiden
(I) naked in the river
when skyfather came
to the maiden (himself) coyote hid
a piece of Skyfather in a clay jar
and let it float downstream
in this river of forgetting
at the end of this life
is a waterfall
when I will become lost
in the great ocean
and will use the scars
your imaginary kisses raised
on my face to paint a
a constellation pointing back into
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