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Two Poems<br />
By Gregory Autry Wallace<br />
Author bio: Gregory Autry Wallace is a poet, painter and collage artist. He studied<br />
English, World and Comparative Literature, and Creative Writing at San Francisco State<br />
University. His poetry and collages have appeared in Athena Incognito, Atticus Review,<br />
Paper Radio and NRG. He was a poetry editor for Ink Magazine and a founding editor of<br />
Oblivion Magazine. Mr. Wallace is the author of The Girl with Seven Hands and The<br />
Return of the Cyclades.<br />
Electric “Elegy”<br />
for Carl Rakosi<br />
[Young black girls covered with stars]<br />
Because he can imagine<br />
secretions of its web<br />
subject unmakes himself<br />
he left his horse and flew several centuries<br />
passed by the idle cylinders<br />
Heaven and earth filled with flywheels<br />
china clocks tick in cold shells<br />
dismal swamp scaring the owls<br />
a still and quiet angel of knowledge<br />
Hunter penetrates fingers of his left hand<br />
and sees grave-worms crawling<br />
in the blood of dazzling fire)<br />
I start thousands of paintings<br />
stopping finally all art and all fantasy<br />
Even the princess had been forgotten<br />
geared in loose mathematics<br />
push in and I become invisible<br />
when the thing stops every power stroke<br />
is stopped with the last slow cough<br />
Antistrophe of the sea light<br />
ineffable beauty of forms<br />
hear the plectrum of angels<br />
fly and hover in Arcadia<br />
Shade of Agememnon
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