It is our privilege alone

to disappear

to never forget that we do,

never forget to set down what must be set down

so that it not be forgotten,

not be lost in all this time:

Emma.

Bob Perelman

In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,

The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,

The walls of marble black that moisten’d still shall weep,

My music hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep.

Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded to my tomb,

O, let me, living, living, die, till death do come.

John Dowland

See sun, and think shadow.

Louis Zukofsky

I navigate now without authority. Turn, great sun,

your disc upon me

I set out now

in a box upon the sea

Charles Olson