Poetry.

Of making many books there is no end,
yes nor an arrival ever before the single
page that will pronounce us as/ we are speechless

For whoever keens to the sound of boats on water
moved by their dissolving tunes
agrees to be frayed by catastrophe/ plunged to the neck in the blue moon's gold.

It is by the singular instance of not knowing
but folding up inside the rebel angel's cause/ that we enter a second life.
Its ministry for damnation. Its syllabaries of pleasure.

Author City: AMHERST, MA USA

Patrick Pritchett's workss include GNOSTIC FREQUENCIES (Spuyten Duyvil, 2011), ANTIPHONAL (Pressed Wafer, 2008), BURN: DOXOLOGY FOR JOAN OF ARC (Chax Press, 2005), and Reside (Dead Metaphor Press, 1999). He serves on the advisory editorial board of Journal of Modern Literature and is a Lecturer in the History and Literature Program at Harvard University and Visiting Lecturer in Poetry at Amherst College.

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