Andrew Joron


Home Unknown Stone

Shh, shh, surest measure––
One minute too minute.

The blue animal lies bleeding
On a field of stars.

No, no word-order to end well

            meaning indwelling––

What effort, merely
            to sob out its
            winter-substance!

Tag from fragment: a certain light
Cannot be cited
            in that Book that wants invisibility.

That which needs nothing to exist
Fixes accident, each

            marriage of the genitive:

Prayer-preliminary to the symmetries in trees.