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Sleep Interrupt

A truck
A plow
Goes yawning into the night
Snow in sheets
Peels off bent steel
Sent reeling

Sleet darts
On window glass
Dark molasses sky
After midnight

Imbolc Dusk

The sky
Of Imbolc
Darkens
A bit at
Dusk

Branches
Still
Reach up

Stretch black
To gray

Flake after
Flake
Each embodiment
Of the sea
Drifts
Heavily

In desire
For the
Land

Objectivist Poets

I have been reading the objectivist poets. In particular Zukofsky, Oppen and Rakosi.

Zukofsky has a music but is so hard to parse. Then I read the following in Jacket magazine, in an article by Peter Quartermain
"Half a year later he would exclaim, in another letter to Corman (25 August 1960 [Origin 63]), that as for “content, . . . the sooner I can get that out of the way & buried in the music of the whole thing the better.”[13] The uncertainty – of “Belly Locks Shnooks Oakie,” “The desire of towing,” “the wriggly Wrigley boys” – is part of the poem and essential. Zukofsky withholds reference and meaning because he want you to think through the uncertainty, by means of it. The uncertainty is itself the material and the ground of thought, for uncertainty is, when all’s said and done, how we go through the world in which those particulars we call objects are, finally, inscrutable. The poem is a way of being in the world without claiming power over it."

This has given me new insight. I read with new eyes.