Tuesday, July 09, 2013

And Yet This Great Wink of Eternity


We split it three ways and what word
Is your third? O consummate sound
The more or less the infinite scimitar!
O speechless parapets and sleepless
Cinemas with silent multitudes bowing
At the altar of our condensed comedy so
Short each line never gets off the ground
We all think we see Jesus Christ himself
Smirking with the unbetrayable lie
We all think our thoughts alone too tall
For the chicken wire of our lazy halos
As if we overtake the slant of drifting hope
Such irrefragable fragrances arise now
To permit our imperfections O seasons clear!

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