I crave quiet more than palest sinners Do their peace of absolution and lift Toward tolerable circumstance wherein Green fields flowing beneath warm winds Play a simple, serene music.
I pray in the gray throng’s heralding din This drowning siren die away and leave Faint thhought to famish, feign, or forge beyond Splitting bone and aching sight in face of Plain, revolving day’s hissing tread of night.
I lay subtle or naked by degree. The myth of common speech harbors the vague Extremity, solidly-stateed airs, Whims of purchase, the purchases of whim, All paid with the natio0n’s prismatic mirror.
Then say this man, a spawn of time, should feel Abrupt and free? Even to imagine Will-tuned guitars flourishing and dancers Sweeping across a mosaic of red tile Inlaid upon the wrecked and shattered ground?