Selected Poems, 1968-1996 by Joseph Brodsky

Author:Joseph Brodsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

II

The month of stalled pendulums. Only a fly in August

in a dry carafe’s throat is droning its busy hymn.

The numerals on the clock face crisscross like earnest

antiaircraft searchlights probing for seraphim.

The month of drawn blinds, of furniture wrapped in cotton

shrouds, of the sweating double in the mirror above the cupboard,

of bees that forget the topography of their hives and, coated

with suntan honey, keep staggering seaward.

Get busy then, faucet, over the snow-white, sagging

muscle, tousle the tufts of thin gray singes!

To a homeless torso and its idle, grabby

mitts, there’s nothing as dear as the sight of ruins.

And they, in their turn, see themselves in the broken Jewish

r no less gladly: for the pieces fallen

so apart, saliva’s the only solution they wish

for, as time’s barbarous corneas scan the Forum.

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