By Robert Bly
Poems
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What are you able to do yet carry up your hand for forgiveness? Chicago Museum of artwork seventy five Why Is It the Spark’s Fault? The soul is in love with marshy flooring and snails, With dust, darkness, wind, smoke and fireplace. The cucumber and melon lead us again towards Heaven. Why is it the spark’s fault if the instant a hammer Hits scorching iron the spark curves towards earth? In July even lightning can't aid itself. Italian fiddlers are continuously able to play close to the enclosed mattress of the Prodigal Son whereas a plump girl cuts a pear with a small knife. Let’s preserve catastrophe remembered in our poems. Our reminiscence feeds on destroy simply as cows Stand round consuming from river water. Who stands for the melon? Seth, Abraham And Shem. The lightness of grasshoppers indicates they're taking in a few mess around track from the grass. Please forgive me if i do know such a lot of phrases And say so little. The observe catches in my throat, simply because a few strength doesn't wish me to keep on with Abraham. seventy seven Augustine on His send at any time when we convey a violin close to the Nile River, The low G string cries; it’s just like the cry a ribbon Makes while a raven consists of it into his nest. not anyone is familiar with what the jaguar’s whisker feels Immersed within the bathwater of St. Francis. We each one must be cautious speaking of our betters. How can the literalists with their heavy voices communicate throughout the skinny invoice of the thrush, or the spark, on my own in rainy cow dung, name to its associates? quite a bit flesh muffles the gradual bones Of the beaver that it’s tough for gentle To go from the end of the tail to the cranium. possibly that’s why Rimbaud, whose gold the teeth used to be so delicately tuned to the Milky manner Of language, may perhaps nonetheless die as a slave dealer. each fall the Kraken comes up and brushes together with his Gnostic palms the hull of the send On whose planks Augustine walks at evening. seventy nine PA R T F I V E a The tough be aware The oaks reluctantly allow their leaves fall, And hesitatingly permit their branches to be naked; And the endure spends all wintry weather in separation. the wonderful thing about marriage is such that it dissolves All past unions, and leads guy and spouse to stroll jointly at the street of separation. It’s a tricky notice. the concept frightens us That this planet with all its darkening ducks was once created no longer for union yet for separation. consider there have been a dragon curled within each one drop Of water, protecting its gold. It’s attainable That abundance has a similar influence as separation. all of us knew not anything of this after we floated within the pleasure of the womb; but if our lips touched Our mother’s breast, we stated, “This is separation. ” it really is my longing to gentle the feathers Of brown birds, and to the touch the perimeters of horses That has led me to spend my existence in separation. eighty one Testifying to the evening maybe the turtle loves his solid again an excessive amount of. loads occurs whilst nobody is gazing. Our hopes for the universe didn't comprise final evening. final week I met her back. In my dream I Took a room in a German hotel; and he or she was once There. nobody else knew approximately it that evening. while the Queen of Hearts exhibits up, we throw the remainder of the playing cards down, and rise up.