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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507858" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Meaning</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dire one and desired one,<br>Savior, sentencer--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In an old allegory you would carry<br>A chained alphabet of tokens:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ankh Badge Cross.<br>Dragon,<br>Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio,<br>Jasper kinema of legendary Mind,<br>Naked omphalos pierced<br>By quills of rhyme or sense, torah-like: unborn<br>Vein of will, xenophile<br>Yearning out of Zero.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Untrusting I court you. Wavering<br>I seek your face, I read<br>That Crusoe's knife<br>Reeked of you, that to defile you<br>The soldier makes the rabbi spit on the torah.<br>&quot;I'll drown my book&quot; says Shakespeare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Drowned walker, revenant.<br>After my mother fell on her head, she became<br>More than ever your sworn enemy. She spoke<br>Sometimes like a poet or critic of forty years later.<br>Or she spoke of the world as Thersites spoke of the heroes,<br>&quot;I think they have swallowed one another. I<br>Would laugh at that miracle.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You also in the laughter, warrior angel:<br>Your helmet the zodiac, rocket-plumed<br>Your spear the beggar's finger pointing to the mouth<br>Your heel planted on the serpent Formulation<br>Your face a vapor, the wreath of cigarette smoke crowning<br>Bogart as he winces through it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You not in the words, not even<br>Between the words, but a torsion,<br>A cleavage, a stirring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You stirring even in the arctic ice,<br>Even at the dark ocean floor, even<br>In the cellular flesh of a stone.<br>Gas. Gossamer. My poker friends<br>Question your presence<br>In a poem by me, passing the magazine<br>One to another.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not the stone and not the words, you<br>Like a veil over Arthur's headstone,<br>The passage from Proverbs he chose<br>While he was too ill to teach<br>And still well enough to read, I was<br>Beside the master craftsman<br>Delighting him day after day, ever<br>At play in his presence--you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A soothing veil of distraction playing over<br>Dying Arthur playing in the hospital,<br>Thumbing the Bible, fuzzy from medication,<br>Ever courting your presence,<br>And you the prognosis,<br>You in the cough.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gesturer, when is your spur, your cloud?<br>You in the airport rituals of greeting and parting.<br>Indicter, who is your claimant?<br>Bell at the gate. Spiderweb iron bridge.<br>Cloak, video, aroma, rue, what is your<br>Elected silence, where was your seed?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What is Imagination<br>But your lost child born to give birth to you?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dire one. Desired one.<br>Savior, sentencer--</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Absence,<br>Or presence ever at play:<br>Let those scorn you who never<br>Starved in your dearth. If I<br>Dare to disparage<br>Your harp of shadows I taste<br>Wormwood and motor oil, I pour<br>Ashes on my head. You are the wound. You<br>Be the medicine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Pinsky">Robert Pinsky</a><div class=q>
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Savior, sentencer--

In an old allegory you would carry
A chained alphabet of tokens:

Ankh Badge Cross.
Dragon,
Engraved figure guarding a hallowed intaglio,
Jasper kinema of legendary Mind,
Naked omphalos pierced
By qui..."></div>
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