Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTERLUDES; TO DIDEROT: 2, by FABIO DOPLICHER


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INTERLUDES; TO DIDEROT: 2, by                    
First Line: From nervation to nervation, the silkworm swears to the leaves
Subject(s): Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)


From nervation to nervation, the silkworm swears to the leaves
that it's for life's sake that he consumes them. but later in the cocoon,
he vomits luminous threads, laughing. white star of reason,
knot after knot is your journey entangled. beyond, the iron
grid that forever spurs this quest. having donned
the mask, your second face becomes a narrow chink
for the widening space. why feign indifference? our
road weighs heavy. a philosophical body, contending with time,
attends to itself, disguised with sexton's grease-paint. the soul
inhabits the void, looks at it in laughter, squatting in spirals
of mother-of-pearl. the pulp of conch-shells has fled, frightened off
by luxuriant excrescences; and in nothingness it searches without end
for neutral forms. a harpsichord makes colored chords, love.


Used by permission of Story Line Press.




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