John Wieners

The Suicide

Yes I put her away.
     But now life flares up
  As safe as China in a cup
  You hear the droppings
            of her heart.
 
  Leaves rustle on the windowpane.
Three o’clock turns round again.
The man in the moon grows full
Of her death while earth awaits
  beneath
To receive her ashes on the wind.
 
      Yes, earth owns the wind
      As I her life
      Whom I have never seen
      Nor been with
Still within our hearts there lies
         this communion
            of all that dies
  we held in common
  because without it
 
we become more common than the dust.
 
 
                            2.
 
Clay cannot create her features
nor mirror reveal her mouth
 
Photograph not show her form
full with self, so put away
 
her picture from the shelf
And turn instead to living
 
woman on the couch, decked with flowers
as if it were she laid out,
 
and not Sylvia, in the woods.
 
 
                             3.
 
Address to the Woman
 
Tell her that may not rise again
she sings still in our breath.
 
Tell her that may not breathe again
she moves yet beneath the moon.
 
Tell her that may not weave again
her hands are dawns within our eyes.
 
Tell her that may not speak again
Her words are warnings in the wood.
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