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“Take it, take it,” to an ocean I beseech A phial of hungry glass “To some distant beach” Holding within it All the air from my lungs, Every heart beat, Baby teeth and hair All the domestic days in the Delaware creek And spare Time Rolling in the waves, frothing jaws Now have the empty bottle I pause, I curse That some child of me will Coddle In the ever-ceaseless body Full and empty As the phial, this thing of matter Sublime in depth But empty in purpose Containing all life But with heartless curses, Instilled of placidity But throbbing with surge Until, it too, the phial will purge —Had I known its fate of woe ( A monument! And I let it go!) —I would have weathered the inevitable ( A monument! And I let it go!) —Then, at least, there’d be something to show ( A monument! And I let it go!)
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Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 7:27 PM UTC
A Bottle of Glass
“Take it, take it,” to an ocean I beseech A phial of hungry glass “To some distant beach” Holding within it All the air from my lungs, Every heart beat, Baby teeth and hair All the domestic days in the Delaware creek And spare Time Rolling in the waves, frothing jaws Now have the empty bottle I pause, I curse That some child of me will Coddle In the ever-ceaseless body Full and empty As the phial, this thing of matter Sublime in depth But empty in purpose Containing all life But with heartless curses, Instilled of placidity But throbbing with surge Until, it too, the phial will purge —Had I known its fate of woe ( A monument! And I let it go!) —I would have weathered the inevitable ( A monument! And I let it go!) —Then, at least, there’d be something to show ( A monument! And I let it go!)
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jp-goss
Apr 4, 2014
Apr 4, 2014 at 7:27 PM UTC
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