Tuesday, November 04, 2014

To Chance upon a Name Made Pure and New


One happens to hear a name
Quiver briefly in the air before one's facenot
Quite an echo certainly not a cough

An inconvenient sob is what one thinks

It hardly matters in the thin procession of names
Strolling leisurely in translucent gowns—now
Dancing anonymously through hungry rooms

One’s entire mind might as well stare in stunned
Amazement at an endless file of zeros—one
Breathless O after another floating from a void

One’s entire mind might behold a truth
That never surrenders except in its winding path
And anonymous return to the void

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