
Sulfur 9: A Literary Tri-Quarterly of the Whole Art
Eshleman, Clayton60 USD
Date
1984
Category
Poetry
Description
Featuring: Notebook pages, letters, and exts by Antonin Artaug, Six Haibun by John Ashbery, Six Poems by Susan Howe, Jed Rasula on Helen Vendler.
Excerpt
“I am so full
of everything,”
reconcile
its loss,
letting go
in time.
but to see
a dark thing
come out of spring
’s calyx
open & upside
down
(you’d have to
leap up
& touch)
the flower
at the top
of an arch,
pure white
alabaster
texture,
look down
& hear the cries
of the world.
Flung now
vermillion
fins
drive sun’s
shaft where
standing
lost in thought
she fills a
(recrudescent)
terra
cotta
globe,
light’s language
thrown flat
on water
re-minding
an old dimension,
swift flight
toward fall.
Those colors
peripheral
as silence
behind sound
plunge words
down
where she can
measure
limits of (that)
vision
& go around it