more than one country
_open to death_ yet
not all dark dreams
manifest how
turn to language beset
by angels so dark light
a saving grace full
moon in time
percussive clouds
slowly dance
across the sky above
the packed square
tentative balance of forces
fireworks displace bombs
in that moment hanging there
Douglas Barbour
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Language has unmistakably made plain that memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theater. It is the medium of past experience, just as the earth is the medium in which dead cities lie buried.
Walter Benjamin
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