Selected Poems by Nancy Cunard & Sandeep Parmar

Author:Nancy Cunard & Sandeep Parmar [Cunard, Nancy & Parmar, Sandeep]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2017-10-15T04:30:00+00:00

(I am alone. Read from this letter

That I have left you and do not intend to return.)

…Then I was walking in the mountains,

And drunk in Cortona, furiously,

With the black wine rough and sour

from a Tuscan hill;

Drunk and silent between the dwarfs and the cripples

And the military in their intricate capes

Signed with the Italian star.

Eleven shuddered in a fly-blown clock.

O frustrations, discrepancies,

I had you to myself then!

To count and examine,

Carve, trim, pare – and skewer you with words.

Words…like the stony rivers

Anguished and dry.

Words clouding, spoiling, getting between one and the mark,

Falsely perpetuating – ‘Why he was thus,

Self-painted, a very personal testimony

Of half-expression’ – and oh the hypocrisy

Of the surrender in the written word…

(Yet taken from this

The discerning estimate of ‘what you’ve been’ –)

What now can be remembered that was seen

Long ago? (always long ago).

The empty seas, the unpeopled landscape, and the sullen acre

Trodden out in revolt –

Associations

Called in unmerited resurrection

Of what’s accomplished, dead –

These, and the chasing of the immortal Question,

The hunted absolute.

In the shade of the bitter vine

I sit, instructed fool and phoenix-growth,

Ash-from-my-ash that made me, that I made

Myself in the folded curve of Origin –

Heredities disclaim, will not explain

All prior mischiefs in the bone, the brain –

Only a ponderous mirror holds

The eyes that look deep and see but the eyes again.

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