Dream Song 42: O journeyer deaf in the mould insane

 O journeyer, deaf in the mould, insane
with violent travel & death: consider me
in my cast, your first son.

Would you were I by now another one,
witted, legged? I see you before me plain
(I am skilled: I hear, I see)—

your honour was troubled: when you wondered—'No'.

I hear.
 I think I hear.
 Now full craze down
across our continent
all storms since you gave in, on my pup-tent.

I have of blast & counter to remercy you
for hurling me downtown.


We dream of honour, and we get along.

Fate winged me, in the person of a cab
and your stance on the sand.

Think it across, in freezing wind: withstand
my blistered wish: flop, there, to his blind song
who pick up the tab.

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