Showing posts with label night animal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label night animal. Show all posts

2/18/16

night animal - Charles Bukowski

I have never seen such an animal
except perhaps once,
but that is another story--
there it stood,
no lion
yet no dog
no deer yet deer
frozen nose
and eye, all eye gathering all the
moonlight that hung in the trees;
and everywhere the people slept;
I saw bombers over Brazil,
cathedrals choked in silk,
the gray dice of Vegas,
a Van Gogh over the kitchen sink.

home, I poured a drink
took off my gloves           you god damned thing
why could you have not been a woman
with all your beauty,
with all your beauty
I have not found her yet.