The Laughter of the Sphinx by Michael Palmer

Author:Michael Palmer
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2016-06-03T12:55:23+00:00

A Dream of Sound Inside the Mountain

(after Anish Kapoor)

It is too brief

this life

inside the mountain

where headless horsemen sing

fevered songs

of self and war

When did we first notice

the trees of mottled bone,

when first hear

the cawing of crows,

contention

of the orchard orioles,

the sleepers’ echoing cries,

rehearsing their final words,

resisting final dreams

(These dreams were mine

and not mine

say the walls of stone,

walls of the poem)

Hedge-crickets sing

and the white whale

its whiteness sings

in the stone dream

and the lost hours have each

their silent song

in the heat of bee time

and the shock of desire

those times when time is not

and the endlessly shifting stones

carelessly speak

and rain floods the rutted roads

It is too long

this spiral life

It is too brief

How the wind and light pass

through our bodies of glass

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