Dennis Lee
“Sixth Elegy”
Civil Elegies
concluding lines
And I will not enter void until I come to myself
nor silence the world till I learn its lovely syllables,
the brimful square and the dusk and the war and the crowds in motion at
evening, waiting to be construed
for they are fragile and the tongue must be sure.
It’s a pact.
And so for day 3022
21.03.2015