Chitra Ganesh, To Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
Whatever
Whatever keeps
a heart this still
suffers itself
unmoved
Whatever casts
clouds before the eye
sees itself blind
Whatever stoops
to low things
is brought near itself
Whatever inspires
angels’ breath
is substantially wind
Whatever is
the Form of form is not it-
self known
Whatever moves
these words
to work
sings itself to sleep.
Poetry
“I live out my life in the widening coils”by Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated from the German by David Keplinger
Poetry
Gerald T. Gordon has published about twenty poems as well as articles on William Carlos Williams, Ernest Hemingway, and Evelyn Waugh. (updated 1974)