Thursday, November 12, 2015

78 (but maybe not)

78.
Never kill a silent stranger they told me the only one dangerous
some knowledge back of them groundhog on its haunches 
at the edge of the field white man with a broken car

learn to read the particular quiet
varmint in its beastworld the imagination speaking in its public street
I ate the book of lamentations and tasted them into the sweet silence I am

Kore freed from korach
the world of representations
lifted by its sweet opposite

the animals my faces
rush forward
and forward only

who is silence
who does one become
wounded thing

of which the sad birds spoke
Anfortas, anyone’s disability, 
not what you have but what has you

to love you
for its own salve

heal the morning with your broken song.

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