gddamn williams

gddamn williams
big oily splotch here, that took the will from your name

leaving only CAR   S

Karen J Mueller, from Chi Omega House
10 S. College, your copy of Spring & All

I have thoroughly studied your annotations
underlinings w/ pencil, half brackets

are you now possessed of a knowledge, that which you know
is not apparent to others, that which turns the lives of others?

have you now escaped, truly escaped, in perfection,

in excellence, in technical excellence?

are you completed? revealed yourself the oneness of experience?

to others, the poetry which has the purpose of poetry put into it?

The wheel of rock & burning hydrogen in stasis
a Mayan carved this image, a capped man sells this passage

To me in mid-town Manhattan. I take it off his hands to read

that THE WORLD IS NEW       once more