White Spaces by Paul Auster

Author:Paul Auster
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780811229449
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2020-06-09T13:47:58+00:00

Fragments from Cold

(1976–77)

Northern Lights

These are the words

that do not survive the world. And to speak them

is to vanish

into the world. Unapproachable

light

that heaves above the earth, kindling

the brief miracle

of the open eye —

and the day that will spread

like a fire of leaves

through the first chill wind

of October

consuming the world

in the plain speech

of desire.

Reminiscence of Home

True north. Vincent’s north.

The glimpsed

unland of light. And through each fissure

of earth, the indigo

fields that burn

in a seething wind of stars.

What is locked

in the eye that possessed you

still serves

as an image of home: the barricade

of an empty chair, and the father, absent,

still blooming in his urn

of honesty.

You will close your eyes.

In the eye of the crow who flies before you,

you will watch yourself

leave yourself behind.

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