Totem: Totem Poem Plus 40 Love Poems by Luke Davies

By Luke Davies

Intimate lyrical grace sustained on an orchestral scale. Alive with warmth and sex.Totem confirms Luke Davies' place as one in all our most crucial modern poets. An ecstatic hymn to like and lifestyles, grandly dense, hallucinatory in its depth, Totem Poem' glows like a sunlight on the center of this ebook; the diamond-edged forty love poems', beautiful lyrics of romance, ardour and intimacy, circle it like satellites.In this new assortment Davies has created an awfully relocating and lovely poetic universe, without delay richly actual and uncompromisingly metaphysical.

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The smell of coffee drifting in brought back to me that lily-white girl and that sad hour of need. How brittle every bone was then. How could one not be completely bedraggled by time or compulsion or duplicity? I was all those things and am. I was so tired with the not-being-here inside of it all that fatigue was like oxygen, given of all the givens, sensurround of the gods. But I was gulping and heaving by then. QX5 19/2/04 9:27 AM Page 29 Totem Poem And that is all so long ago. Though when you forget the last time: most likely it is not the last time.

And each thing now stood once again for every other thing: but bursting at the seams, awash with light. If your hair was light, if the night was peppered with light, there were no surprises left except that light, that everything including light, came cloaked now in its self-astonishment. I had ratcheted all my experience up to a newer level. Whoever could come along with me, I had pocketsful to share. Boatloads perhaps. Your hair was like a starburst. We unmoored ourselves. It was even disingenuous to say there were no surprises; but wonder upped its frequencies.

Even the rocks were awash with electrons. Shadows had no colour. Objects sprang from every corner. I wasn’t a daredevil: I was a risk technician. QX5 19/2/04 9:27 AM Page 34 Totem Poem I could tell the difference between a horse and a seahorse, underwater, with my eyes closed. Finesse it was to be alive that day. There was a falcon on my arm. There was a hood to be removed. When he blinked he gorged himself on the plains that stretched away. We said only Devour. He took it all in. He dropped out of sight on the tendons of his wingtips.

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