Name: The Moment
Duration: P00H00M40S
Description: Sonnet

The Moment

from Six Sonnets and Some Wild Words Resurrected from the Last Century by swampmessiah

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Purchasable with gift card

name your price
Buy the Full Digital Album

about

Sonnet

lyrics

Opening one hand to pacify
and spreading another to titillate,
as though either one could rectify,
justify, alleviate or compensate—
for the fingers of both hands
digging up from an opening line.
Both consume the erratic strands
as fingers twine. Both claim to combine
moment and the moment’s hesitance
into an unlimited gesture almost
as ancient as the hand’s silence.
Each articulates love before love’s lost.
And, in closing, both hands feel
their touch makes everything real.

credits

from Six Sonnets and Some Wild Words Resurrected from the Last Century, track released March 30, 2014

license

about

swampmessiah Saint Paul, Minnesota

I was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1957. I've been drawing all my life and painting since about 1975; I started writing poetry and rants in, maybe, 1976; since 1996 I've been recording those poems and rants, usually with a "musical" backing.
I live in Saint Paul, Minnesota. My partner and I have two children. I have a day job that is in no way artistic. ... more