Earlier Poems by Franz Wright

Author:Franz Wright [Wright, Franz]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-307-49497-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Midnight Postscript

{for my friend Joseph Kahn: born ipso, drowned 1982}

Walking the floor after midnight I leaf through your pharmacopoeia or a book on stars.

How I love the night.

It should always be

night, and the living with their TVs, vacuum cleaners

and giggling inanities

silenced.

With here and there a window lit a low golden mysterious light.

I love the night world,

the word night. Book & door. Joseph. Death's haves— …

I'm never going to get this right.

And I can't go on forming

and tasting your name

or biting down in blinding pain forever—no,

from now on I have entered

and live in our unspoken words.

And the space I took up in the world scarlessly closes like water.

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