67.
Poem day they call it in Cathay
Kitaj Ezra Sandra Fisher Thomas Meyer
great ones of a single paradigm
no one but you could understand
the point is to learn your place in
the hieroglyph
the paradigm you belong to unknown to
each other
the forest of Broceliande Allen
Fisher Alan Halsey
Nathaniel Mackey Michael Hartnett
these are the Makers in one long
chamber
Wagadu to Erigal that wave of shout
music made them and the earth had
sense
they lift the hill like heroes and go
in.
68.
Everybody’s strong in the sense of
saying so
the word hurled all night just said
today
it is the breath of Vayu who are you
gods of storm
wet wood and anxious trees and bird
in trouble
but the sea calm we live in paradox
under the original apple tree among
the ferns as far
west as the road lets us go before
the rock
topples into silence that boulder
smile
I am no man and came here before I
was
and before a thought of you troubled
the singularity
you angel you meaning of my life with
your own wings
I stumble along to keep up with your
swift shadow.
