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The Interrogation. Michael Bazzett
Читать онлайн.Название The Interrogation
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isbn 9781571319623
Автор произведения Michael Bazzett
Жанр Зарубежные стихи
Издательство Ingram
with rock and water
yet listen to neither
or how we cannot recognize
ourselves when delivered
to ourselves through signs
as when our souls
take the form of gulls
crying again and again
the one
sharp word
we all have in common—
The Central Registry
I slip two nights between the wooden slats.
We store them upright
to discourage warping.
Because night has a memory.
They are wrapped in brown paper,
tied up snug with twine
and surprisingly flat once folded.
I label each one neatly with a permanent marker
affixing a label to the spine for that very purpose
and then move on
to the moonlight
which needs to be poured into an aquarium
with a fungicidal solution.
So much moonlight is sickly these days.
Once, the twine broke
on a night long ago
and it started coming on—
the paper burst
with the snap of a small bore rifle
and it unfurled
like a black wing.
The force of it split the pine of the storage rack
and filled the warehouse with a pitchy blackness.
It was a fine specimen, midwinter,
late nineteenth century, moonless,
cold as a brass bell and utterly still.
You don’t see many nights
like that anymore.
Not that I’m nostalgic.
This job brooks no sentiment.
Not once you’ve smelled moonlight
when it’s gone round the bend.
Ithaca
I had that slight burst one gets with the third glass
of wine and decided to walk to sunny Ithaca, white
rock like a tooth through blue water. No stallion land,
but good for goats. Or so I’m told. I excused myself
from the olives & brie and slipped out the side door.
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