Posted by David Tate on November 26, 2003 at 06:28:38:
#9232
your breathed
angel stars lacquered bacchus dear
to you grave
I clang and
somehow the
light
the nothingness
"Your breathed angel stars lacquered bacchus" tells how your sweet breath in my mouth mingled with and supplanted the flavor of the wine we were sharing.
"To you grave I clang" plays on both grave (tomb) vs grave (solemn) and on the false sense of "I clang" as a kind of ungrammatical past tense of 'cling', but with the bell-ringing overtones (as it were).
The ending is weak, but hey -- it's better than pretty much anything by John Ashbery...