Dedicated to Jeenie Yoo
Beholds, imbued melancholy
necromantic romantic
mysteries of mine
Sphinx, incandescent and profound
eddies of strange light
gleamed like silk illuminated
from inside
but from inside contours of bone
Her delicate pearly orbs
like nocturnal flower covered in dew,
irising open
speaking schist oblique
faintly luminescent
Behold, a shard of silver moon
cutting pure throuh the air,
pure deep into my mind.
This could be dedicated to both Eldritch Dark and Jeenie Yoo as they were on my mind at the time of its creation in Korea. I realized the poems I was considering to send/did send to you were created in the late 70's/ throughout the 80's, however,that was the decade I was really into learning who was this fantastic poet I "discovered" in the late 60's. Those I were interviewing who knew CAS first hand, like E. Hoffman Price and Emil Petija, eventually became friends and the interviews a series of pieces I was later to do on master poet Smith. Some, like Bradbury and Leiber, told me one of the greatest compliments ever given me... that they felt I was cut from the same cloth as Smith. So, this last piece is a homage,as well, to CAS and the doors he help open wider for me.