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Mark Mitchell. Homage to H.D.

Mark Mitchell

Homage to H.D.

 I pound on the hermetic door.
 An echo, heavy as lead, rolls away.
  
 I knock again and the ghost 
 of your voice floats out from under it,
  
 brushing my face, light as a spider web,
 light as a mother’s hand out of Ancient Greece.
  
 —My angels are my angels. I feel this,
 I don’t hear.—They are not yours
  
 to play with. I sent my own Helen
 to Egypt so I could keep all her secrets.
  
 Now go.  I stare at the black door.
 I bow thrice to you, thrice to Hermes. I flee.
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Mark Mitchell

Mark J. Mitchell was born in Chicago and grew up in southern California. His latest poetry collection, Roshi San Francisco, was just published by Norfolk Publishing. Starting from Tu Fu was recently published by Encircle Publications. He is very fond of baseball, Louis Aragon, Miles Davis, Kafka and Dante. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, the activist and documentarian, Joan Juster where he made his marginal living pointing out pretty things. Now, like everyone else, he’s unemployed. He has published 2 novels and three chapbooks and two full length collections so far. Titles on request. A meager online presence can be found at https://www.facebook.com/MarkJMitchellwriter/ A primitive web site now exists: https://mark-j-mitchell.square.site/ I sometimes tweet @Mark J Mitchell_Writer

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