Five themed poems by Bob Heman

Five poems
by Bob Heman

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What they believe in is an animal the others speak about. It has powers no one has ever seen. In another age it would have been one of the gods. Now they can only take it apart to see what makes it work.

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When the gods were rearranged the forest became deeper and the men rode in little cars that resembled bears.

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The gods were also afraid of demons. They covered their mouths and other orifices whenever they stepped out of their sanctuaries. Of course they had never seen them. The demons were only a story they were told the same way we are told stories about gods who are actually alive.

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The god of commerce has a false eye and whispers in his sleep. He is the only real god they will ever know. They come to him with requests he does not understand. He sends them to the building where the carriages wait.

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Sometimes the god is only a door that was left open. The little things that escape are never more than hints we have to rearrange in order to use.

Author bio:

Bob Heman has published and edited CLWN WR (formerly Clown War) since 1971. His "cutouts" ["participatory cut-out multiples on paper"] range from literary objects to conceptual art and have been included in a two-man show at the Brooklyn Museum, a one man-retrospective at BACA's Downtown Cultural Center, and in group shows in Toronto, Los Angeles and Brooklyn, as well as in a textbook on writing poetry and in an anthology of performance scenarios. During the late 1970s Bob was an artist-in-residence at the Brooklyn Museum.