CANTO 35 Canvas walls thumping
C
anvas walls thumping in the windlike heart muscle.
Or semi-permeable membrane shaking in the bloodstream.
The rush is on, the dredging, sluicing, sifting.
For what? early June peas, prime rib, prime numbers,
prime ministers, honor students, party members?
Panning for the inexpressible.
Do I keep what is filtered, or what is filtered out?
A presence, or an absence?
What hasn’t yet been thought?
A nugget, lump, clod, or speck of the
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I must work with such specks, clods, lumps, nuggets.
Do I keep what is filtered, or what is filtered out?
A presence, or an absence?
Surely among these is the emanation I seek!