I'll just read four new poems.
This is titled "From the Reformation Journal."
A lot of these poems have gaps in them,
which I'll just try to somehow read
into the timing of the poem.
This one happens to have a lot of asterisks as well.
There is one line quoted from Emily Dickinson.
And two lines quoted from Ekelof.
The wisdom I have heretofore trusted
was cowardice, the leaper.
I am not lying.
There is no lying in me.
I surrender myself like the sinking ship, a burning wreck
from which the depths will get theirs
when the heights have gotten theirs.
My throat is an open grave.
I hide my face.
I have reduced all to lowercase.
I have crossed out passages.
I have severely trimmed and cleared.
Locations are omitted.
Uncertain readings are inserted silently.
Abbreviations silently expanded.
A He referring to God may be capitalized or not,
is crying now.
Show me is crying now.
What's wrong?
In a strange tree of atoms of too few more no wonder.
Give me the glassy ripeness.
Give me the glassy ripeness in failure.
Give me the atom laying its question
at the bottom of nature.
Send word.
Clear fields.
Make formal event.
Walk.
Turn back.
Reduce all to lower case, have reduced all.
Cross out passages, have inserted silently.
Is there a name for glassy ripeness.
In failure born and raised.
And you go back.
Need more.
Having lived it, leaves it possible.
Fear, lamentation, shame, ruin, believe me.
Explain given to.
Explain born of.
Absence is odious to God.
I'm asking unseen, unseen the treasure on perceived.
Unless you compare the treasure may be lost.
Oh, my beloved.
I'm asking more atoms, more days,
the noise of the sparrows of the universals.
Yet colder here now than in the atom.
Still there at the bottom of nature
that we be founded on infinite smallness, which occasions
in corruption, or immortality.
In corruption because already as little as it can be.
Escape square, wasted square, safety square, hopeless square.
To all, accept anguish.
The mind soon adjusts.
Have reduced, have trimmed, have cleared, have omitted,
have abbreviations silently expanded to what avail.
Explain, asks to be followed.
Explain remains to be seen.