Saturday, September 29, 2012


Cascando




simple to touch
simpler
        if not knowing
or caring not caring

but this cascando tonight
is no answer

there are white stars
& beyond them
a dawn
a brightness

there are black stars
& beyond them
an absence
an emptiness

        if we knew again
again we can't
there is only this
a nakedness

a nakedness words won't clothe

if we grow thin grow gaunt
they'll tell us we are in love

we grow thin grow gaunt
we have no love




Dick Russell
First published in Littack, 1974, edited by William Oxley


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