definition of S dream code — Panamá sew — snake warmer

By Roberto Harrison b. 1962 Roberto Harrison

grown to give this gun

to you that sings

around another metal grip

inside the stall that goes

against the marker that has cuts

and calculates their known

deception, something ran

instead around the parked

encircles disks. wagon, tent

was all that heard, no mouths

were twice together found

or borrowed in the ceiling of

another torso promising this

twice together head, this push

through veins that gives your

death another word, another

his, another whipping rain

with any arm and any end

finished — pocketed amount

that goes around the dust

inside their word, their forest

cut like wounded deer in sights

they have you down around

the bear that stole and bit

no wash, no jail in beaming what

had nothing in this earth

to speak the level of their tongue

that is all know, and all the S

that Panamá has had in hand

with me, I dream you were

my heart all sewn

together by their was

and is is known

right now

Roberto Harrison, “definition of S dream code — Panamá sew — snake warmer" from Os, published by Subpress. Copyright © 2006 by Roberto Harrison. Reprinted by permission of Roberto Harrison.

Source: Os (Sub Press, 2006)

Biography

Poet Roberto Harrison was born in Oregon to Panamanian parents; he and his family moved to Panama when he was a year old, and then to Delaware in 1969. Harrison pursued studies in mathematics and computer science as an undergraduate; after a year of graduate work in mathematics at Indiana University in Bloomington, he traveled in the United States, Europe, and North Africa. His collections of poetry are Counter Daemons (2006) . . .

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