In my early 20s, I was a guard at the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum.
The Cool Hunter went to heaven and filmed it. Castello Di Reschio, Umbria Italy.
The Centaur
Shape-changer caught in the middle
Of rehearsal, here between beast
& man, like a young Chiron,
You pretend birthright,
Hoping Atalanta’s arrow
Finds you on a lost path
In bloom. Yes, sometimes,
You can be loony as a drunken
Stunt man in Paradise, a bit
Of Theocritus’s sad metaphysics
In your bones. One half tortures
The other for the romantic songs
Crooned at sunset. Unholy
Need & desire divide the season,
As you eat sugar from a nymph’s palm,
Before she mounts & rides you into a man.
-Yusef Komunyakaa, from Talking Dirty to the Gods
