Two Poems
Poetry by Rodney L. Patterson
Video by Gregory Botts
How wise they are in the moon's time,
yessing the world's dumb gulp of their cries.
What art of tireless approval and outrage –
unraveling songs of dismay.
Winds and clouds and lightning race
through the rooms of their legends,
like blind dreams perusing ages
for lost nursing rhymes,
lost somewhere in glooming beasthood –
where I was lost, where you were lost –
and never came back...
from Time is the Rider
Rodney L. Patterson