HEART THREAD Parts 105 & 106

105.

Hammer heavy but I can judge the
sound of competence

and he’s not it, a father trying to
fly kite for kid

but there’s no sky, Chinese dragons
slice

one another’s guide lines up La Salle
above the river

yea Lady the same river the two-faced
blue-eyed water

writing is a way of doing nothing but
keeping time from passing

or lets time pass but makes it leave
behind it

shadows on the little world people
hold in their hands

stare gently out the window thirty
years

Pound’s kulchur stares back in we
live paideuma

the wolf has turned himself into the
door

he lit the fragrant peony in the
Western mind.

106.

How can I be at peace who knew no war

the Brothers Grimm are my grandees

their angry soldier only in exile
find the blue light

I follow the bright lumen to the cave
mouth of my sin

there is a first place to
wander from

in Adriatic mist and summer storm

pale Rilke fiercest thinker of his
day

adding the one force Nietzsche
missed, the sentiment of love

and to do no more than tell the truth

invented poetry along the way

this new organ in our flesh of meaning
things

a word like children screaming in the
rain.

ROBERT
KELLY