Wednesday, October 3, 2012

sequence-form: schuman fantasie in C Major first movement

1.
the heart knows what it
wants              even in defiance
of an object.

i have made myself
sick        on the idea
of your face

but i did not
know you
from adam.


2.
i am wondering
in my slow way
if this makes you lonely,

to be
abandoned
to the garden of my mind

where everything
in the blue moonlight
has turned        to seed.


3.
oh my love
oh my love
on whom

can i pin you?
within what restless        wind tunnel

can i
fix your echo?

within what can i divine you?


4.
i looked at my shadow
in the rush of water

the water had come down

a mountain--the stream had
swelled

against itself

i saw the brief false indent
my shape had made

against the light on the water.


5.
vanesa you left
a room inside my heart
i closed it off to you

grateful and angry
to have felt       something

with a name as distinct

as that of love.

time wore down
the walls        until
the tiniest rekindling within them

burned them away.

heart, what will you do now?

heart, how will you ever learn?

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