An old angel takes his wine at a table
\nin a wood, drinking from an earthen
\njar that never empties. Pine needles
\nweave a net around, catching schools<\/p>\n

of light that swim through frozen
\nbranches. He studies a spangle
\nas if searching for its name and rubs
\nthe jagged scars burned across his face.<\/p>\n

Pine cones fall. Branches rattle. He mutters:
\n“Only fish philosophise the ice away<\/em>.”
\nAcross the fields gaunt cows
\nlower to the skies.<\/p>\n

Another angel, of suppler eye and wing,
\nsits atop a hill beneath a plum tree,
\nan urn of ashes in his lap. “Silent form<\/em>,”
\nhe says, “I will not say thou<\/em> to you.<\/p>\n

I should not say you<\/em>.” He pours out
\nashes at his feet. A sparrow darts through
\ndissolving clouds. He asks, “Do I deserve you<\/em>?
\nI have been these stones. I have been that bird.<\/p>\n

I have been a reed beside the winter river.
\nBut I have never been the brightening
\nmelody.” He picks about the gravel,
\ndraws a white tongue across his teeth.<\/p>\n

“I am thousands. Then I will take the name
\nof no tone\u2014I will be the greater gray.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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