Sam Kaufman | uhwuhna at gmail dot com | also at cogito zero sum

Sunday, March 25, 2007

"son gone" #14




How would I live, how
bear to smile?
I count the doors.
Thy hand, fierce
remembrance
joint by joint, the works
make thee memorable.
Among women with
gold, though art more
than winds & sea & sea-shore
Thy still eternal calm.
Why go? To mix with fame?
Proclaim his black name—
among the circumcis'd
I may stand defamed
but my country
her, I most desire.

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