EVIL STANZAS
.
No spirit seek rest here
-Steven Spender
.
I
Breath defines length of line
As does notebook shape/size
.
Yesterday afternoon hearing
Archie Shepp play
.
full breathe, rich-toned
saxophone chords
I think language can do
this too/
.
to make feeling evident
sound with evil stanzas
.
As one sufferer said:
unto us blessings are denied
.
Making some characteristic failure
our tautness - a trance
.
II
after Juan Sanchez Pelaez
.
If snow falls now
on a street without course
nor sign,
myriad shades inquire,
from the foyer,
if our entry is fleeting;
will it last or not.
And they point toward
the actual path,
always being attentive
or dressed in night cloth.
.
Thus,
from what north or south,
from what east or west,
these prompt shadows arrive
or amble
through fields
.
in stables and cottages,
no one knows
save through a dusk's thin beam,
when we can glimpse the absent
when our big hands
talking alone
open toward the other cold.
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