Sunday, March 09, 2014

Seeking the Same Thing Ahead of Us at Times


I am asking you I’m asking as you come yes
As you draw nearer as you slowfoot closer 
Kicking dust down this pig-trail I’m asking you 
In this your happy answerlessness in this realm
This place happening forever to us breathing
The same syllables for once underway making
Toward something open and occupiable
The addressable Thou is what Celan called it
The Thou in this till now undreampt-of sense
Perhaps—I’m only asking—perhaps you see
Poetry’s lips move even hear a tongue
Bumping teeth and a throat making sounds
If you feel it do you feel it then it’s you you
Hear here in the distance poetry must travel

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