By Brenda Hillman
A fine ash obscured the sun.
Leaves grew large as rooms.
Stamped recreants strolled near the pond of wands.
There was a great and terrible brightness
that was pretty much like a fire
but it had lots of eyes in it.
Four syntaxes correspond to four styles of going on.
Can you hear? (How ‘bout now.) Non-chanson:
lie down in the tent of a servant-queen;
lie down in the dust; go on.
One kind of sentence remembers the accident;
one kind of sentence is a scar.
