Now, I have the pleasure-- it's always
hard to decide what to read, but tonight, because Chax Press,
Charles Alexander, has put this book out,
which I just saw earlier today for the first time, Four Poems,
quite recent.
I thought I would read these four, fairly short, poems.
And the first is called "Targets of Opportunity."
"We share these sediments, sentiments, out of hope
of passing through divides into an uncrossed wildness that
never can arrive, that always, already, has been sold--
the world inhabited by its core of molten plains of pain,
the loss of which binds the gap to break against such lore
as those our father's father's father told to
tune the flood of days."