Sunday, June 7, 2020

Words Forceps


All their words: Basho, Neruda, Akhmatova, Yeats;

they enter and eddy and brim

and are gone, not completely.


I look down into their boiling;

am stirred and moved and inspired

and faintly lost


for wanting

‒ too much maybe

myself spasmic on the end of those forceps.


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