Eric Walker: Selected Poems


Edited by Raymond Foye and Scott Walker


         


Eric Walker Sketchbook, 1993



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She the sentience of hours,

fond ways,

stars, dust

of passionate yoga,

leaves entrance into voyage
of mystics, 

in trance to white dreams

of pure sparkling water,

in time with the Bhagavad Gita
three steps to the window,
eyes like clean dice
fall upon the moment...

Memento, three lovers
first the Son,
second the Holy Mother,
thirdly the Father of creative Being,
non-terrestrial, feeling upside
down, non materials
										moments
 
circumstances
clear customs of riverside property,
bleating on the outset
like a fanfare of shouting phantoms,
which way Back from the Illusion...

T.V. heroes, junk-faced men,
starving dogs of ecstasy,
tremulous status quo,
eyes like giants speak
familiar tones, strange onside of early
autumn romance in the flutter of boats,
sad endeavor,
strange cafe of women all parading
in nose-rings & lip-rings,
everybody clear-eyed
stating their desire.





Reprinted by kind permission of the Regents of the University of California,
Bancroft Library, Berkeley. Gift of Diane Walker Murray