Gather pagans and papists
Gather mermaids and heroes and sweet young things with smooth brown
thighs
Gather potions of the world fit for consuming
Gather ashes to scatter like preventative tonic
Gather the guardians of the sea
Gather altruistic wisdom
Gather the kingdom of nothingness
Gather consequence by the fistful
Gather the realm of rain
Gather soft kisses
Gather exquisite desire
Gather the air in your lungs
Gather the myth of your sex
Gather the red wheel barrow
Gather fistfuls of raw silk
Gather incidents best left abandoned
Gather the Brooklyn Dodgers
Gather ferrymen who stand smoking on their bows
Gather hunters who rise at dawn
Gather men who choose a contemplative life
Gather mothers with fists at their sides
Gather worlds to conquer
Gather whispers in unnamed rooms
Gather certainty with a thresher
Gather wit in a small blue bucket
Gather the marble frost of dawn
Gather the brothers of the lost
Gather Lucky Strikes and Pepsi
Gather fragments of bone
Gather a safe harbor
Gather the epic journey
Gather the consequences of ignorance
Gather the fall of the horizon where the future lies unborn.
Rio:
A Journal of the Arts