Collection search - Poem: You know too well the agony of the moment

set: Unquiet Time - Key Set

Inscription: You know too well the agony of the moment: / Think of last night / When I was followed down the street by the soft / scattering of dead leaf, / Convinced of footsteps. / Follow the steps, follow the illusion - sound / Looking through trees / With their hands held up to hide from her brilliance / the moon is the same you see./ Orb of silk threads entangling mesh / As the fly plops into the web / Rolling, entangles itself more tightly / is caught, absorbed. / I hide tall-small between tree trunks. / It amuses me to think that this same moon / Which darkened when the carpenter's child / Tensed on the cross, still brooding bird of ill-omen / Steeplejacks across the night. (complete transcription)