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Purity of Absence. Dave Margoshes
Читать онлайн.Название Purity of Absence
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isbn 9781770706729
Автор произведения Dave Margoshes
Жанр Поэзия
Издательство Ingram
there is no conception, brave
Columbuses sticking out their tongues
at earth’s edge, leaving god’s forgiveness
behind them in the constant slant of sky.
How right the bard was, what fools
these mortals be, all the more so
if they think they aren’t. Fools
who gaze at themselves with wonder,
with reverence, as if seeing something
more than what god had intended,
the simple arrangement of his form,
there on the glass, the reflection
burned with balm onto our perfect eyes.
for Salman Rushdie
Ernest Toller, an antifascist German author and playwright, was arrested in 1933 by the Nazis and forced to eat one of his books.
—Newspaper Item
Eating our words, we find
ourselves face-to-face
with realities we could only
guess at before, the bitter
taste of metaphor staining
our tongues like blood ballooning
aortas into comic-book dialogue
bereft of all distinctions.
There is nourishment
to be gained from narrative
and simile, from truth spread
thin as peanut butter all the more
palatable, sticking to mouth’s
wonder-struck roof, embedding itself
between the teeth of lies, annoyingly
beyond tongue’s tangled reach
but things we need to say
catch in our own teeth
if we hold them in too long
disallowing the natural propensity
of nature to seek its own level
abhorring vacuums sucked from our guts
by words sharp as bayonets, the turning
away of each tiny, perfect ear.
Sage Hill, Saskatchewan, August 1993
Backs turned to artificial light,
we marched up the hill like soldiers
to battle, laughing to give
ourselves courage, our faces
lifted to the trembling sky, god’s
ruffled breast opening to enclose
us, twenty poets or more ranged along
the curving road to the exposed bones
of the radar station, its voice
stilled, its ear no longer cocked
to heaven. We would be radar,
hurling our pulse into darkness
in hopes of making contact,
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