Reasons to Resist / Robert Kelly

Reasons to Resist / Robert Kelly


First a flame emerging

from the tip of a raindrop


then a swirling congeries of flames

in the shape of a woman

dancing through air, gone,


dark again

as it ever was.

We live here now

adored by circumstance


gulls like old white men

toddle along the lawn



Because sound does show the way

or a way

                        or just away,

lusting all the livelong day

for other places,


where the sea goes,

always come back.


100 pg.