Total Pageviews

Monday, January 27, 2020

Mallarmé

Music in my mind 
sharp and brilliant as the greasy knife 
shaving a day off the sun-- 
music meaningful as water 
or the song still ringing  
when the notes' bare ends 
in a thought afloat in light-- 
stray swan alight in a sunset 
engulfing entirely the moment aspired to 
or a truth not unalike as shrouded.

Most things I was good at making nurses laugh  
the human body's ironies alike we, perceiving 
connected like bone to flesh 
as sure as we were bred to laugh 
identically even if otherwise 
my general confusion 
was now symmetrical with understanding 
The Being Unbeing Itself.

No comments: