29 November 2020

Lewis Warsh 1944-2020

 

 

Leo sat. To perfection. Hearing at last that last original Silence.


Saw then, above All Light, the hovering darkness, Magnetic Will-o'-the-Wisp, Lambent the Darter, Life, dark down and


His life plunged down to pluck from Light, the Silence:


Beginner the Beginner: Instigator

Beginner the Novice

Beginner who Begins again and again

Beginner the Starter: Teach and Tell

 

And then the Word rushed in and Mind the Silence, Light, 

became Dark again, and chattery

 

Birth containing his Death: This Book

 

          "Come, let us watch again the slow demise"

                                                  -Anonymous Elizabethan

 

(from 1977's I, Leo)

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