I have been waiting
for this moment.
Image: Steel Making, Buffalo District, 1956.
A poem is going to happen
Surprise and anguish
Is never overcome
our love
will comfort
my old fear.
A poem is going to happen
it reveals
what has been
hidden
for far too long.
Image: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, The Tree of Personal Effort, 1895.
A poem is going to happen
it will be
self-reflexive.
William Blake, “Thomas Gray”
cover of
Great Poets (London: The National Gallery, 1971)
Why was compensation
without everything
which was necessary
for life?
Not again…
The body
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This heart
now a broken library.
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This Way Brouwn
Here is all, now.
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Paris Review Poem No. 4
“Who will believe in our innocence?” -Marcel Moussy
This state of grace
perpetuates
only in circumstances
beyond credulity
such things
we hold
in spite
of history.
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