Twenty-Seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit by Timothy Donnelly

Author:Timothy Donnelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2003-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

MONASTIC

The ruined cathedral wept into my flesh

because I held nothing within me with warmth

enough to deflect it. I flattened a hand

against its relief to imagine the hand

that had carried it out—the cuff, the garment, the quick

scent of limestone struck into shape

and the whimper of cooling.

I carried myself with all I imagined

down to a lake, letting

are you are you

loose over water, out in the air—

how incomprehensible

being has been to me

from the beginning—and back

to the rock, laying all of it

down—slant wood overhead

that would molder away,

the cowl, the calling, I can hear

the voice carried back to me,

lessoned, my own

blown voice, blowing there there.

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