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    Late Rapturous
    Late Rapturous
    Late Rapturous
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    Late Rapturous

    By Frank X. Gaspar

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    In his fifth poetry collection, Gaspar's poems are spacious and awake, in touch with faith and anxiety, and unafraid to wander. These poems are multi-layered with Judeo-Christian allusions and metaphysical images of faith.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAutumn House Press
    Release dateApr 1, 2021
    ISBN9781637680193
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      Late Rapturous - Frank X. Gaspar

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      June/July—Eleven Black Notebooks at the Desert Queen Motel

      Then night again. The dry lightning like artillery over the far reefs

      of stone and the thunder-god shearing the air—all the gods in foment

      and calamity, but it is not enough. The rumble and rupture, the shattering.

      Out there in the wilderness. Isaiah, Ezra, their lamentations, insufficient

      in the madness, and me with my tall can of iced beer leaning

      at the railing outside my door, like at the taffrail of a ship, but instead

      of the big turbines thrumming on blackoil, now only the small throats

      of the air conditioners gagging and moaning. The cold aluminum sweats

      in my hand, and I’m pleased for this small miracle, water out of the

      cracked desert air, but it is not enough. My happiness now, with the

      work coming forth in fits and then gouts, is not enough, for it saves

      nothing, yet it is a happiness after all, and therefore inexplicable.

      The stars crowd one another out of their familiar lines. The arm

      of the galaxy, its bright muscle against the belly of the sky. Not enough.

      My heart full or empty, not enough. Now, to set something down in

      the midst of folly, one true word, one simple cry out of the black arroyos

      and dangerous washes, the canyons, the granite redoubts, but the lone sob

      of the desert hen is not enough, the television’s mangled voices creeping

      through the drywall and stucco are not enough, and I am running out of

      time and money, always time and money. And love, I don’t forget love,

      but it’s not enough either, it doesn’t save anything, the graves open for all

      the beloved to lie down in and all the despised as well, and it is still not enough.

      Stepping back into the cramped room I think of that ship again. How a ship will

      fit into the poem at this juncture. Perhaps my own ship from that other time.

      One hundred thousand tons of death and empire. Grand under my feet. Rolling

      with the long ocean swells. Sky like desert sky, shot with the unutterable trillions.

      And the engines banging forward blindly. Into that darkness. Under that blaze.

      Sometimes God Saves the

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