EZRA POUND
o
voice that came to me
echo of voice that also is vault
vault that
is
air and space
space that
is
bloom
Voice I have longed for
how did you ever snuggle yourself out
of the fenced-in rooms
where they keep you a prisoner
and how is your way so free!
Has not the sentence set its mark on you
are you so landless?
Truly
you give me once more the courage to be that with you
FABLE
With the crazy ones we will always find a way
said the Butcher
but how will we manage with the much too skinny?
I was thinking, said the Schoolteacher, primarily
about the enormous-headed
And the more-than-ambitious, said the Stevedore
where shall I stow them?
The irrelevant ones give me the most headaches
broke in the Attorney
Let us instead pass on to the next item on the agenda
proposed the Carpenter
And so they did
