Corrupted into Song by The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman Rebll

Author:The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman Rebll [Rebll, The Complete Poems of Alvin Feinman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780691170527
Publisher: PrincetonUP
Published: 2016-07-15T05:00:00+00:00

II

Pilgrim Heights

Something, something, the heart here

Misses, something it knows it needs

Unable to bless—the wind passes;

A swifter shadow sweeps the reeds,

The heart a colder contrast brushes.

So this fool, face-forward, belly

Pressed among the rushes, plays out

His pulse to the dune’s long slant

Down from blue to bluer element,

The bold encompassing drink of air

And namelessness, a length compound

Of want and oneness the shore’s mumbling

Distantly tells—something a wing’s

Dry pivot stresses, carved

Through barrens of stillness and glare:

The naked close of light in light,

Light’s spare embrace of blade and tremor

Stealing the generous eye’s plunder

Like a breathing banished from the lung’s

Fever, lost in parenthetic air.

Raiding these nude recesses, the hawk

Resumes his yielding balance, his shadow

Swims the field, the sands beyond,

The narrow edges fed out to light,

To the sea’s eternal licking monochrome.

The foolish hip, the elbow bruise

Upright from the dampening mat,

The twisted grasses turn, unthatch,

Light-headed blood renews its stammer—

Apart, below, the dazed eye catches

A darkened figure abruptly measured

Where folding breakers lay their whites;

The heart from its height starts downward,

Swum in that perfect pleasure

It knows it needs, unable to bless.

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