Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman

Author:Brenda Hillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1992-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

What do you fear in a poem?

(I fear the moment of excess, as in March,

when oxalis comes out all in one day.)

What do you fear in the poem?

(I fear that moment of withholding—

especially inside what I thought was free;

and I feared the poem was just like her,

that it would abandon me—)

—So the poem is the story of the writing of itself.

In the white tent of the psyche

or out there in the normal fog:

the mockingbird all spring:

she looked just like a note herself,

each bit of music slipping past her

till it stopped—

each time one note missing;

it wasn’t exactly failure on her part,

she just needed something to do tomorrow.

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