Saturday, October 8, 2011

On Juxtaposition

“What’s to be done or said in the meanwhile I don’t know,
and what is the use of poets in a mean-spirited time?”
—Friedrich Hölderlin, from “Bread and Wine”

Straddler across lines
Between the forces
Of good and evil

In these mean times
What we need from you
Now is more than just—

A position. 


Friday, October 7, 2011

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Do not disturb
The sequence—

Approaching the light-
Hearted play

Of wretched village urchins, low-
Flying joyful

Swallows cutting up patterns
Out of a sunless sky.


Thursday, October 6, 2011

Fed Up

It just so happens
I have exactly

What you need but
Not as much as what

You thought I had
The last time I had you

Eating out of my hand.
 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Against All Odds

I swear

I was this way

Some years before

But something tells me

That doesn’t count any more.


I swear

You won’t find me

This way again,

Trying once again

To even up the score.




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