May 2, 2008

 

 

 
there are things you need to say
before you say the things you mean;
give them credit to believe you,
to show the things you've seen--

an excellent nonsense exasperated
by toil, and still you need to say:

there is a castle in a canyon--
there it goes; there a child starves
in lives of window and of door;
the weather war and war tenor;

there a carcass before vines;
there a flicker of lightning,
clapping afterthought; there
successions of eclipse.