Amy Clampitt - A Silence lyrics

Past parentage or gender Beyond sung vocables The slipped-between The so infinitesimal Fault line A limitless interiority Beyond the woven Unicorn the maiden (man-carved worm-eaten) God at her hip Incipient The untransfigured Cottontail Bluebell and primrose Growing wild a strawberry Chagrin night terrors Past the earthlit Unearthly masquerade (we shall be changed) A silence opens * The larval feeder Naked hairy ravenous Inventing from within Itself its own Raw stuffs' Hooked silk-hung Relinquishment Behind the mask The milkfat shivering Sinew isingla** Uncrumpling transient Greed to reinvest * Names have been Given (revelation Kif nirvana syncope) for Whatever gift Unasked Gives birth to Torrents Fixities Reincarnations of The angels Joseph Smith Enduring Martyrdom A cavernous Compunction driving Founder-charlatans Who saw in it The infinite Love of God And had (George Fox Was one) Great openings See more at poets.org, from the American Academy of Poets