Monday, December 08, 2014

To Live the Way One Breathes


One comes from the cold field of poetry
Knowing nothing but the peculiar dialect
Of the crow—one's voice tangled in those
Lines of chiaroscuro thought—one speaks
The arbitrary rhetoric of Apollinaire even
The simplest sounds that fall from one's lips
Rise into new and unforeseen statements
Still one says everything remains to be said
One says I for one should like to say that I
Have no ideas on that score but a poem
Is not a great wall holding back the angry
Horde of candy canes O a poem’s just
A wee thing one says the best is when
The poem stops and silence listens

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