AIRPLANE POEMS
1980
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circles on the earth
– somewhere in Kansas –
what do they mean?
I take the circular form to mark
the coming of Messiah
day by day
– but not in Kansas! –
From: Ce qui advient et ce qui n’advient pas
Je suis devenue immatérielle,ombre qui se déplace dans la flammede la mort perpétuelle. Mario Luzi
THE NORTH WIND WHIPS
The north wind whips through,
in the streets papers and leaves
are chased with resentment.
Houses moan,
dogs curl into balls.
There is something in the afternoon’s finger,
a catfish spine,
a rusty nail.
BAD MODERNISM
A SEXY EPIC
“A SEXY EPIC.”
An untoward alliance
of words.
A prosti-code of our time
(an era which is scarcely maternal).
An age pusillanimous or absurd
What would Homer have said
Poems and poetics