How the arm moved
Throwing the poet’s
Ashes out of the boat
How it all comes back
To where it started
How the whole story
Form of telling curves
The story around
Impossible corners
How brief lives
Have eternity
Inscribed
In recursive
Character
How the stars swam
How the moon
Was dying down
Out over the water
To loosen out into
Those big quiet waters
Little pieces of
The whole story
Are floating on
After the squall
Robert Duncan
d. February 3, 1988
Rainbow after a squall: photo by Saperaud, 2005
Tom, this is lovely, and useful as I continue editing a chapter on Duncan and Levertov.
ReplyDeleteThis is something:
How brief lives
Have eternity
Inscribed
In recursive
Character
Anyway, thanks for recalling RD this morning.