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When Poems Are Still
by Alan Harris
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It is calm of times now, poems having disappeared like a mist. Yesterday's nagging scintillations that promised a tryst of wordings now lie content below any saying, any art. Quite free from poetry is almost any peace until some brazen poet arrives to stir up some alphabet soup-- but the very deepest calms, like a sea bottom, lie mute beneath all chop of words and wind. Today let there be rest from poems and from other twistings of the mind, for it is calm of times now, free enough for wordless breath, and breath, and breath. |
From the book Heartclips (1996)
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