Into Each Room We Enter Without Knowing by Charif Shanahan

Author:Charif Shanahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poetry, General, American
Publisher: SIU Press
Published: 2017-01-20T00:58:05.174000+00:00

SONG

I wait each night for a self.

I say the mist, I say the strange

tumble of leaves, I say a motor

in the distance, but I mean

a self and a self and a self.

A small cold wind

coils and uncoils in the corner

of every room. A vagrant.

In the dream

I gather my life in bundles

and stand at the edge of a field

of snow. It is a field I know

but have never seen. It is

nowhere and always new:

What about the lives

I might have lived?

As who? And who

will be accountable

for this regret I see

no way to avoid? A core,

or a husk, I need to learn

not how to speak, but from where.

Do you understand? I say

name, but I mean a conduit

from me to me, I mean a net,

I mean an awning of stars.

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