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| Lorine Niedecker |
Born on May 12, 1903, Lorine Niedecker's poetry has often been placed in the Imagist and Objectivist movements... More > |
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| When Ecstasy is Inconvenient
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by Lorine Niedecker |
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Feign a great calm;
all gay transport soon ends.
Chant: who knows—
flight's end or flight's beginning
for the resting gull?
Heart, be still.
Say there is money but it rusted;
say the time of moon is not right for escape.
It's the color in the lower sky
too broadly suffused,
or the wind in my tie.
Know amazedly how
often one takes his madness
into his own hands
and keeps it.
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From Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker, © 2002 The Regents of the University of California, University of California Press. |
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