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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NECESSARY ANGELS; POEMS IN THEIR YOUTH, by STEPHEN KUUSISTO
First Line: We stopped beside the road
Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass.
Variant Title(s): Breton-esque
Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped
First Line: We stopped beside the road
Last Line: And chewed the cemetery grass.
Variant Title(s): Breton-esque
Subject(s): Blindness; Poetry & Poets; Saints; Worship; Youth; Visually Handicapped
We stopped beside the road,
Two bantering monks
In the wild-carrot leaf,
Each dimmed by acquired reading
And reposing now in the verdure
Of persons gently unhappy.
Our saints were nothing but rhythms:
T'ai brassé mon sang, I said,
I have brewed my blood.
I swore St. Francis was Rimbaud,
That we were consecrated to anxiety
And we'd be dangerous by and by.
Exotic with immanence,
We recited from Nerval,
Then Mallarmé,
Whose poverty you loved.
Paltry friend,
What atrocious vigils we owed!
The bats came out
To poems of execrable love.
I read Lorca like a menu
As we dropped to our knees –
Rare connoisseurs –
And chewed the cemetery grass.
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