conversation on a random bench, part two




the decline of the author

 

 

I know

he said

 

There will be a time when everything is being deciphered differently.

Every single meaning will dissolve like clouds and fall down as rain

 

but this time it is I who is being written. I am the impression that will transform itself

 

indeed

I replied

knowing that his Rilke translations grew out of his very amputations

as the only thing still alive

 

while the rest of him filled glass jars of lukewarm spirits

along with the twelve tribes of Israel





Poetry by Ghost of Heino
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Written on 2017-10-05 at 15:31

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I like this, too, especially toward the end, the vividnesses.
2017-10-09


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i don't know how many times i can read this, i'm beyond counting. my comment is this: i will continue to read it. will i make sense of it? we'll see. why would i keep at it? because of the title, and b/c it's there (no, that's too easy), b/c thoughts needn't be ordered to be significant. how's that?

emotionally—it makes me want to hibernate.
2017-10-06