A Poet Reflects

Lesson
Because what is outer is inner there is no outer there is no inner— I am trying to get this straight And what the long sentence assembled by cemetery sparrows said before my presence arrived dispersing them in its brief wake, oh wordless endless.
—Franz Wright, from God’ Silence: Poems by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)

Lesson

Because what is outer is inner
there is no outer
there is no inner—
I am trying to get this straight
And what the long sentence
assembled
by cemetery sparrows said
before my presence
arrived
dispersing them in its brief
wake, oh
wordless endless.

—Franz Wright, from God’ Silence: Poems by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf, 2006)

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