3 PoemsThe Devil’s Music
Radiant sounds flush
to advantage. It’s heartsick
how passing sparrows trouble appetitefor hearing. Their dreaming
tune: “My error ends
all wrongs.” I love it. Yes,bring them to me soft and willing
On Reverdy Road
but I’ll still be softest drizzled
in the open palm where music waits.
They like poetry that isn’t.
Not the kind that wakes into you
the way eyes gleam candidin shadow, untrimmed wicks,
or that you grab from casual breezes
barehanded at dawn. Whendon’t the words in a poem
Posthumous Poem by Jack Spicer
count? When they fall into a pit
and Dear Reader goes tumbling after.
I overheard it in my sleep. Beginnings and endings
slowed down, static
echoes. Firstcommentary on beauty was swarms of bees
vexed your assets
in sunshine toward those easy pieces for piano. Still fluttering?Condensed cloud
just unwind some brittle notes of honey toward
a distant bedroom for lullabies.