Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Poesis as Language

The plenary does not name the planetary
                    So it begins
                              Anew
The dream of impossible speech
          The voice of language
                              Itself
                    As opposed to
          The voice
                    Of language itself

Who's to know
                    Which is which
          When they are equally
                     Unreachable
Is the I that speaks
                     No longer me
Or the Not I that calls
           Merely I

That which names has no name
                      Itself
Like an endless flowing
           Forming from the Logos
                      And DNA shapes
           The distant things
                      That afflict us

Forms into poems
           To instill a relation
                      Where there is none
Just a mark of where
                       The singular
           Once touched
                       Long lost
           In a forest
                                 Of traces

"The heart of the poetic
           Lies in its unspeakability."
                        It speaks because of this
           Over and over again
                        As if the first thing
                                  That's said
           Will be the final word

But there are only moments
                                   Lost
           The poetic
                        Goes first
           Before any frisson of contact
The sound of hollow jars
           Before the guide hand
The echo of what can never
                        Be allowed

                        But is anyway
In some strange vaporous land
           It knows
                        We trust
                                   We go