you withdraw from the names
that spin the silence of things
—Alejandra Pizarnik
shadow singing silence
shadow longing eyes as I
shadow spawning iron bone foam
shadow chaining gaze totemic
shadow forgiving ironblack
shadow receding fabric of time
shadow kissing infinite light
now
at this innocent hour
I and the one I was sit together
at the threshold of my gaze
NOTES
—Two poems by Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972); poems XXVIII and XI in Diana’s Tree (Árbol de Diana) (1962), trans. Anna Deeny
—Photos and captions, an hour downtown driftwalk, Douglas Beauchamp
