It has happened suddenly,
by surprise, in an arbor,
or while drinking good coffee,
after speaking, or before,
that I dumbly inhabit
a density; in language,
there is nothing to stop it,
for nothing retains an edge.
Simple ignorance presents,
later, words for a function,
but it is common pretense
of speech, by a convention,
and there is nothing at all
but inner silence, nothing
to relieve on principle
now this intense thickening.
Je Suis Une Table
Donald Hall
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Poem topics: silence, edge, good, speech, ignorance, simple, language, common, coffee, suddenly, intense, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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