Black zodiac by Wright Charles 1935-

Author:Wright, Charles, 1935-
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1997-04-29T04:00:00+00:00

N EG ATI VES I 1

One erases only in order to write again . . .

You don’t know what you don’t know,

We used to say in the CIC in Verona—

Negative space, negative operability To counterposition the white drift of the unknown.

You can’t see what you can’t see.

It’s still the best advice, but easy to overlook As winter grinds out its cigarette Across the landscape.

February.

Who could have known, in 1959, the balloon would not go up?

Who could have seen, back then, the new world’s new disorder?

John Ruskin says all clouds are masses of light, even the darkest ones. Hard to remember that these overcast afternoons,

Midweek, ash-black and ash-white,

negative shapes sketched in And luminous here and there in loose interstices Elbowed and stacked between earth and sky.

Hard to remember that as the slipstream of memory shifts And shutters, massing what wasn’t there as though it were.

Where are the secret codes these days for nuking the Brenner Pass? And the Run, and the Trieste Station?

Like sculptured mist, sharp-edged and cut into form, they slide on by. One only writes in order to erase again . . .

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