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Pythagorean Silence (an excerpt)
Susan Howe
1.
age of earth and us all chattering
a sentence or character
suddenly
steps out to seek for truth fails
falls
into a stream of ink Sequence
trails off
must go on
waving fables and faces War
doings of the war
manoeuvering between points
between
any two points which is
what we want (issues at stake)
bearings and so
holes in a cloud are minutes passing
which is
which
view odds of images swept rag-tag
silver and grey
epitomes
seconds forgeries engender
(are blue) or blacker
flocks of words flying together tense
as an order
cast off to crows
From The Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe. Copyright © 1990 by Susan Howe. Reprinted by permission of New Directions. All rights reserved.
Susan Howe
1.
age of earth and us all chattering
a sentence or character
suddenly
steps out to seek for truth fails
falls
into a stream of ink Sequence
trails off
must go on
waving fables and faces War
doings of the war
manoeuvering between points
between
any two points which is
what we want (issues at stake)
bearings and so
holes in a cloud are minutes passing
which is
which
view odds of images swept rag-tag
silver and grey
epitomes
seconds forgeries engender
(are blue) or blacker
flocks of words flying together tense
as an order
cast off to crows
From The Europe of Trusts by Susan Howe. Copyright © 1990 by Susan Howe. Reprinted by permission of New Directions. All rights reserved.