The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison

Author:Leslie Harrison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Akron Press

[Landscape with falling birds]

All the voices in the world humming in the radio waves in the wires

tangle braid and knot and not one is you trying to find me every one

is the dropped call lost before it sets tongue to bell pulse to pulse

they sing the voices in the wires in the waves in the sky I hear them

singing all the time operatic and frantic and I cannot sleep for all

the singing when I wake from not sleeping a hundred thousand birds

have fallen dead from the wires their branches if someone could gather

the dead the rain of feathers and flight would drown us all and

there would be no boat then the boat would come too late the captain

demanding a payment that payment would be stop trying to forget

remember all the time for ever the sound of his voice remember

as if it were the last light before you were blind and I would say

but wait what is a voice what is light they are uninhabitable

you cannot live there and he would say yes and he would say

remember as if it were the only perfect light so what I see is not

candle star sun incandescent neon acetylene moon no buzz hum

flicker heat is instead the scent of all that died mixed with time

and pressure poured into glass and fragile poured against a wick and lit

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