Civil Twilight by Jeffrey Schultz

Author:Jeffrey Schultz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

RESOLUTION IN LOVING MEMORY OF SKY & GOOSEFLESH

With their feet deep in the dust of the earth as desolate as the

sky, they went along with the resigned look of men who are

condemned to hope forever.

—Baudelaire

The air may be thin, but it is what can be breathed.

—Robert Hullot-Kentor

“Hope” is the thing with feathers—

—Dickinson

Having begun now to burn bright as the fires that bore it, having,

As so many things, become of what it was from the first the apparent

Equal, transformed only through atomization, through display,

Those distinctive signatures of the miraculous and its window dressers’

Ongoing project—Design’s gentrification of a vulgar, impoverished Real—,

Which, on-schedule, over-budget, will spare not one of us its curatorial

Light and the touch, feathered at the edges, of its sentimental reflections,

We’ve been called here today by these contrails’ inscrutable skywriting,

By their invocation of that charred, nameless chasm, that scorched no-

Man’s-land that separates a pictographic glyph’s gape-mouthed gawk

At that thing right there from the disinterested, abstract yawn any alphabet

Would offer in return for such a gauche archaism, called here to gather

In memory of what by the end of this will have already been forgotten.

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