( RH-SENTINEL ) Robert Hunter, Sentinel

Sentinel
Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter followed up the release of Night Cadre a year later, 1993, with this collection of poems.

A sample:

Trapping a Muse

Go for it go under
make your way back
recall what you
went for first
decided to get -- got,
declined to keep
woke up on a bus
saw the place go by
and kept riding.

Written in rope 'round
the neck of the famine
"this my own,
my native land,
this my own countree"
men in overcoats
bearing a pall in the rain,
I and not I equally
at ease within the shroud.

How a mild breeze
can shut a door so that
you look up wondering
what she wants of you:
nothing and everything.
Look to your lines
and ignore the source.

A ghost for all seasons,
stroking the nape of
the neck of the moon --
strawberries of Ganymede,
the blood oranges
of Gethsemane;
the dates of Amon Ra.

Sparks of fluttering rings
as she shows the
shape of the smoke;
the smooth sides of the flame.

Useless to imitate
when the thing itself
is far from outstanding.

This is the
Age of Understanding.
Before it the Age of Marvels.
Before it the Age of Belief,
the flow of the hair
on the scalp of the skull...
the beach in the sun of
sea salt winter -- rage
with runes in the
dark of the parking lot.
Metanoia : fear of avenging angels.

Softcover
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 150

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