This Great Unknowing by Denise Levertov

Author:Denise Levertov
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780811223195
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2013-04-18T04:30:00+00:00

DARK LOOKS

Strange: today the mountain

—circled by curly cherub clouds

beyond the glittering lake

and vague middle-distance—

looks dark, not snowy,

at odds with the benign

October light, a frowning

humorless old prophet,

sullen among the putti.

Memory demands so much

Memory demands so much,

it wants every fiber

told and retold.

It gives and gives

but for a price, making you

risk drudgery, lapse

into document, treacheries

of glaring noon and a slow march.

Leaf never before

seen or envisioned, flying spider

of rose-red autumn, playing

a lone current of undecided wind,

lift me with you, take me

off this ground of memory that clings

to my feet like thick clay,

exacting gratitude for gifts and gifts.

Take me flying before

you vanish, leaf, before

I have time to remember you,

intent instead on being

in the midst of that flight,

of those unforeseeable words.

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