Jerome Rothenberg (poems) and Arie Galles (images)

 

 

 

To dream

infinity

& know the time

draws nigh

never more near

than now

 

 

2

 

 

 

the far look

of an ancient

god

his hands

ready to bring us

down

 

  

3

 

 

 

there is

no end to it

the universe

escapes us

& another universe

takes shape

 

 

4

 

 

 

 open & shut

absent

a god

whose malice

holds us

ever too close

 

 

 5

 

 

 

 still to be

free & clear

the deeper

image

out of our beck

& call

 

 

 

6

 

 

 

seeing the others

fallen

entering the pitch

& blackness

figments of an endless

mindless world

 

 

 

7

 

 

 

the beauty

of the never-

ending

freezes us

more spectral

than a dream 

 

 

8

 

 

 

how many circles

make up a universe

if only the eye

allows it?

nothing the mind

can know or tell 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CODA

one

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eight

wild circles