“[There] is all this narrowing to a now in which there’s only room for effect, not enough room for cause—and so no duration in which to experience personal accountability.”

But you, are you Christians?
So be it, you are Christians.
At night one could be.

Sound rises. That is a law. I live in this law. I do not
                        want to make anything
                        that rises. These words

Black bars expanding
      over an atomic-yellow ground — feelers retracted —
the monarch lay flat on the street

  Is it because of history or is it because of matter,
mother Matter—the opposite of In-
  terpretation: his consort: (his purple body lies
shattered against terrible

Then two juncoes trapped in the house this morning.
  The house like a head with nothing inside.
The voice says: come in.

  When I caught sight of them, the secret lovers,
I had been watching the pink-edged white blossoms
  in the garden below

The truth is this bad been going on for a long time during
                                                                         which
they both wanted it to last.

Meet me, meet me whisper the waters from the train
    window and the small
      skiff adrift

For some of us the only way of knowing we are here at all, going
across and going down,
exquisitely temporal though at no point believable; fragile; tragic.