Wild Is the Wind by Carl Phillips

Author:Carl Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

GENTLY, THOUGH, GENTLE

Now that neglect only half excuses the field’s contagion,

it’s not enough to look back at the past as at a thing

to shy from, this is not

nostalgia, you must look at it,

try to, just as steadily as, for entire days, you watched

bees ferry water up from the moss-conquered

birdbath to their hive, presumably, in the chestnut’s

branches, that moment-at-last in summer when

the release that fall will be

again seems possible, the way

within aggression you still want to believe

always something more tender, given a chance, will show

too, eventually, as if “flowers

first, then the fruit” were what you’d meant

all along by a clean arrangement, the door this time

closing not so slowly, your hand turning the lights down

democratically upon the heat, the night, its night song …

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