Friday, July 09, 2010

After Conrad Aiken

I saw your angels on the far horizon
weeping copious tears of peach blossom
smudging


the first drafts of clouds



I saw Senlin's morning days go by-

the cost of losing music-
the rainbowed dust compounded and contained


the slander of mere starlight in American poetry

shuddering, shadowing forth
the orchards razed-


and the long white silence after



mary angela douglas 9 july 2010

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