Van Gogh痴 Mad Cypresses

Van Gogh痴 Mad Cypresses
I don稚 want to be buried under a cross, or preserved horizontally beneath a marble slab, or scuttled out amongst the sharks and seaweed, or mummified for the ages, or burnt on a Ganges raft. I do like country churchyards and cemeteries, especially the ones shaded by oaks or watched over by Van Gogh痴 mad cypresses, or sheltered from the gray north wind by ancient poplars. I would be willing to spend eternity under an oak, or next to an anchored house of granite, but only if I were awake and alive and unthreatened by sanity. Let other seeds be planted. Let this seed be swept from the stones of the miller痴 floor and into the singing stream. Who are the living? Who are the dead? And where have their spirits flown? A feast awaits, the jars are full of wine. We speak of children as if they belong to us, as if we were not children ourselves. We speak of our mothers and fathers, our grandmothers and grandfathers, as if we were not wise and old. We speak of what we do not know, and revel in the sound. Yet we fear the dark. Let me stand watch with Van Gogh痴 mad cypresses. Let me be bathed in the bright yellow sunlight dripping from his brush. I do not want to be buried under a cross, or constrained by blind geometry. A rusted coin will never cleanse a pharaoh痴 mouth of dust. But I am willing to listen and wait forever, awake, alive, unthreatened by sanity. *March 18, 2005* Next Entry Return to Songs and Letters About the Author	Also by William Michaelian POETRY Winter Poems ISBN: 978-0-9796599-0-4 52 pages. Paper. 覧覧覧覧覧 Another Song I Know ISBN: 978-0-9796599-1-1 80 pages. Paper. 覧覧覧覧覧 Cosmopsis Books San Francisco Signed copies available Main Page Author痴 Note Background Notebook A Listening Thing Among the Living No Time to Cut My Hair One Hand Clapping Songs and Letters Collected Poems Early Short Stories Armenian Translations Cosmopsis Print Editions Interviews News and Reviews Highly Recommended Let痴 Eat Favorite Books & Authors Useless Information Conversation E-mail & Parting Thoughts Flippantly Answered Questions
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