Leon Fernandez - The Gates Of Paradise

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Dedicated to: Among wondrous things is A veiled gazelle, whose Pasture ’s a tryst-place ‘Tween breastbone & bowels, A garden shimmerwrapped. (from Ibn al Arabi) David Daniels, enlightener of my Intuition; Christopher Daniels, beacon of my education; Mark Terwilliger and Oceansong Edgar for their steadfastness in Friendship; Tom Crump for his generosity of spirit.
Palaemon alaemon In Siren-taught ears Raven- Hymned spheres resonate choreo- Graphed dorian refrains echoing Ionian strains & inspire ivory- Bowed aeolian lyres. Surround- Ing Hesperidian isles Ladon’s Sinuous rills bless Persephone’s Pomegranate orchards and Aphro- Dite’s golden apple groves. In Our rough western verses, we Serve one dish from vast Hom- Eric banquets of Minoan myth; And our Californian harvests Reverberate to new Castalian Songs for leaping past Altair Delian dolphins lead the Muses From the Hyperboreal islands to This porphyry-vined Naxian land.
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