| OTHERS BEFORE
Lost in the stream of measures
peripatetic immeasurable finite infinite
collects empty shells by the shore
not knowing what sequence history accepts
tosses regrets in the water of oblivion
refuses to play games others have before
and at dawn devises the celestial dome
When the storks return
every tall tree and every tall pillar home
when the swallows return
every veranda niche and every niche home
when the kestrels return
every mist fleece and every cloud-threshing floor
By the neglected tombs of others before
he remembers while lighting the night candle
when Argo returned
the voiceless song found its source
in the eye of the Pleiades from Spring of Mortals |
MYTHOS PRESS, 2002
45 pp., art, ISBN 0-9658793-0-7
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