Skeletal kin
tilt
italic lunacy
long illness of little difference
Seventy memories
masks
singing and piping
to be
(half words)
beginning and begetting
strangers nodding to one another
stumbling and scrambling
(uncertain theme)
random form
strong arm of my name
Emblem
sign strewn flapping
(flapping of ravens in rain)
What sequence
Mothers hide harmless
weary for antiquity
the simple
Eglantine
Soldiers moving as toys in a
world soul
War
Obdurate as ocean he went forth
conquering
—and to conquer
Anatheme
who was my father
Empty dominions beyond structure
—Susan Howe, from Defenestration of Prague
Art Credit Zdzisław Beksiński, Untitled, 1956
