Poems from Everett Mark

You took me to Guadalajara,  You took me to the burgraves,  And I left while the going got good,  It was you, the Matterhorn.  Who froze me...
My pilgrimage to jerusalem, My wanderings into the inner depths of the asylum, I saw drunks playing dice, Betting on three ones, Gambling...
We find ourselves in a time, Where the vultures fly above and ask for peace, And the damned still answer, Where the traitors stretched...
A bird on a wire, Reeds rustle on a beach, The wind moves through them both, The dust has no time to settle, Before taken flight, Air will...