Cento (for 75 Poem Project) (written 2007)
Cento
from: Ted Kooser, Louise Gluck, Stanley Koonitz, May Swenson, Robert Pinsky, Robert Lowell, Robert Hass, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Richard Wilbur
When was I silenced, when did it first seem
pointless to describe that sound
She is saying it’s time that the swinging were done with,
if I stepped out of my body I would break.
This is the force of faith. Nobody gets
what they want.
My hand draws back.
Into blossom.
This is the aftermath
a hero, dying,
Gives off stillness to the air.
Enlightenment, shade of grief.
It is always a matter, my darling–
I cannot say what loves have come and gone.
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