New Poetries VI: An Anthology by Michael Schmidt & Helen Tookey

Author:Michael Schmidt & Helen Tookey [Schmidt, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Poetry
ISBN: 9781784100377
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
Published: 2015-05-31T23:00:00+00:00

On Heidegger’s Being and Time

I

When I was fourteen, I wanted to play the violin. I did not

have the discipline of my twin, her feet

dragging before her eyes down each stair early

before seminary each morning. My Mom accompanied her

on the piano, a remnant from girlhood that came before

books and boys. Vanessa played while she thought

and Mom thought I slept upstairs.

I was listening: a book by my bedside and my black lab asleep

in my twin bed.

Now, I would hear Mother say. It is time, now is the time. Everyone

is waiting for you. Your siblings are waiting for you

in the car. God is waiting for you, too.

II

The metronome tsks time. It is telling the now,

now, now, now. It is the quiet from the before,

the clamor of what is to come: four equally stressed

sixteenths. The details deliberate, the need for discipline

in the disparate. The phrasing of time being

robbed from one note to another. Refuge in order:

the absoluteness of a thing holding time, holding time

in time. Pointing to now, no, now—though the tick-tick sound

has come and gone before it has come.

III

Listen: one can only wait

for nothing; nothing waits

for no one. I know nothing,

know no end

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