(Somewhere in a northern clime it is snowing and a bell tolls)
The metallic heart
of a care-free child bell-tongues night snow,
resonates / hums / remembers itself
in out-flowing liquid rings, like water remembering
the knife of a dead man’s dive,
an agony, mindless, unnamed.
Though the playful bell tongue tolls ecstasy
melancholy rings the inner ear.
The childlike tongue / heart chimes
and rhymes joy upon the knife-edged night
; upon the knife-edged night a metal-tongued heart
hammers and hums, hammers and hums
: hammers and hums a lyric song
hammers and nails a requiem.
fillière 