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For d.a.levy and john cornillon
all the wind rain tears
everything ending before your eyes
the horror pushing over ribbed land
hills in spring the pass then winter
death jack your desolation how
to get by it or get by with it
how to wake and not sleep on
how to walk under darkness bridges
rivers all water me hunting through papers
for something i don't know what
buying wine beer breaking
trying to write or work all my
sadness all my private lakes of lostness
all my madness everything here is a package
of flesh that moves
here i am no longer undone with fear
here burning poems in my hands
waving my arms in a storm
here talking through my ears
dancing over bridges in an overcoat of leaves
here myself invisible
i stand waiting
a flower in my fly
as you find something
- Kent Taylor, 1965
Appeared in
Gooseberry 2 & Late Stations
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