View From The Northern Wall: The Next Belch

Saturday, July 2, 2011

The Next Belch

I have no idea what this is "really" about. Sometimes it just gets too odd...

The Next Belch

I shall atone once you
get me to grasp the main point
of entry into
dreams of who I was
when this all started for us.
Or maybe never
as I rumble on
wondering what the next belch
will taste like for me.

December 3, 2009 9:22 PM

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Ghost DansingJuly 3, 2011 at 7:06 AM
omg...
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Ghost DansingJuly 3, 2011 at 7:07 PM
happy 4th of July Christopher. cherry blossom blues....
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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.

The View From The Northern Wall

Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.

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The Next Belch

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