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A poem is going to happen

it will reveal the hidden structure of beauty.

A poem is going to happen

it will bethe topicof conversation. Film Culture Magazine No. 42, 1966.

Acknowledgements

No one really knowsworriesfrom years ofexperience,moving throughelsewhere:I know.

A poem is going to happen… elsewhere.

Missed Appointment No. 1

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Paris Review No. 121

[ This silence. ]Envied in itsstillness,an inscrutable restraint:contains,withholdsitselfa conversation, waiting (a denial)

Isaac/ Caravaggio

Originally posted January, 2019 Isaac to God I learned of loveas a lesson, taught at the edge of steel: an experimentwhere I was evidence —of what a manmust do to uphold a promise.