p'raps I will. thank you Cal.
KS
On 24/01/07, Caleb Cluff <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> You've got it Kasper - but I still think you should revisit Coleridge -
> especially after this. And that third stanza is fabulous.
>
> Cal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and
> poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of kasper salonen
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 1:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: hammerpoem
>
> hammer
>
> on a whim, in the middle
> of the night, the white world
> calls for me
> because it is cold
> with a sleek weight of delight
> & full of a mask¯
> I hear a call only as I translate
> the light insisting this darkness,
> counterweight apple to the moon,
> pale-raw without promise
> of a thaw.
>
> from my window I see how
> the altar-street calls for pattern¯
> physics longs to be a riddle!
> I throw a hammer & it careens,
> heavy-blunt as a gunshot,
> down to where ice hardens under powder.
>
> never have I loved the expressionless
> stencils of chance as much as now¯
> snow inches its gaps but there
> where this new hammer
> fell & danced
> like a dropped skull
>
> are hieroglyphs
> filling them with rules.
>
> KS
>
>
>
>
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