Brooks Lampe
La Chahut
Based on a Seurat painting by same name.
Only one way to know the world: open your hand and
feel the strong pink music climbing the air like
hips kicking up a skirt while keeping somehow
balanced. People and things need each other. Moments are
collected and put into books, books onto shelves. One of them
lists the names of our future children and explanations for trees
and love. On the walls are symbols of desire, flowers that
fill the earth's exterior when the sun adores the dirt
and seasonal weather drops in. Heraclitus might look at this
and see fire, and he would not be wrong. That's why the eyes
of dancers are closed, and musicians' faces turn away
as they search their hands for that melody somewhere within.
Bio
Brooks Lampe teaches writing, literature and philosophy at George Fox University in Newberg, Oregon. He is the author of a poetry chapbook The Planet of Left Hands and the editor of Uut Poetry, a Substack of surrealist writing. His poems have appeared in Peculiar Mormyrid, Right Hand Pointing, Bombfire, and elsewhere.