Curves and Angles by Brad Leithauser

Author:Brad Leithauser [Leithauser, Brad]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49469-6
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2006-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

II. When the Smoke Clears

The mind, that rambling bear, ransacks the sky

In search of honey,

Fish, berries, carrion. It minds no laws…

As if the heavens were some canvas tent,

It slashes through the firmament

To prise up the sealed stores with its big paws.

The mind, that sovereign camel, sees the sky

For what it is:

Each star a grain of sand along the vast

Passage to that oasis where, below

The pillared palms, the portico

Of fronds, the soul may drink its fill at last.

The mind, that gorgeous spider, webs the sky

With lines so sheer

They all but vanish, and yet star to star

(Thread by considered thread) slowly entwines

The universe in its designs—

Un-earthing patterns where no patterns are.

The mind, that termite, seems to shun the sky.

It burrows down,

Tunneling in upon that moment when,

In Time—its element—will come a day

The longest-shadowed tower sway,

Unbroken sunlight fall to earth again.

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