SEA DRIFT

after Whitman & after Darras, Messiaen, Asselineau

Issue of oscillation—the incessant balance of cradling

Beginning of cradling that balances itself without end

Comes of cradle, perpetually balanced

By the gorge of the mocker, his refusal musical

Beginning of the goose of the bird-mocking, birth harmony

Comes of the goose of the bird-mocking, birth musical

By the midnight of the ninth month

Beginning at the midnight of September

Comes at September’s midnight

Some more lotion in the memory of the change of this bird

Beginning of the souvenir or the bird that chants for me

Of my memory of the bird who has sung for me