Where Abstract Starts
I sit here it is 4:00
Should I say
it?
Death occurred to me
And the fit over bounded
My physical
thought
As I lie here
It must be my underlying thought
Know now where it comes from
Know now where abstract starts
I sit here,
I lie here
It is 4:15
And I should say it
Out in the open, under the stars
Rebounding in my
physical body
My non-existing into
The snows of abstract flesh
-- Joseph Ceravolo
The poem appeared in the February 18, 2008, issue of The Nation.
See The Oxford Book of American Poetry for other poems by this extraordinary talent.
