Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTERLUDES; TO DIDEROT: 4, by FABIO DOPLICHER


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INTERLUDES; TO DIDEROT: 4, by                    
First Line: Chestnut horse, imprisoned by a few sticks
Subject(s): Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)


chestnut horse, imprisoned by a few sticks
in the sink-hole. the narrow path closed off, you trot roundly,
the horizon of unearthed rocks turns round with you, eyes of distress
gaping wide with the burden, wide with the halter. you're alone, free
as the limestone that dissolves with water. midway
an ox-skull calcined for eternity distills its reason.
ash of thought, you sparkle igneous and then fall again,
sculpting yourself compact in a grain. a solitary
nape of war, baked by the sun like so many others,
a man put to death, who knows why, among all the abandoned bricks
at the entrance to the lane of stones. the mason now
is mush, matter's restless mainspring. he grows man-shaped
roots, a child pulls them up whole from the earth,
over there, running about like a horse, compact in his horizon.
gash after gash, we pin up strips of skin
with rusty thumb-tacks, distant ones, amid the harbor's
mists in strange little boxes strewn about and suspended by dream.


Used by permission of Story Line Press.




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