Today's poem is by Bruce Bond
Lorca
You hear it best where the key turns minor
and enters a field you did not know was there,but it was always there, you think, this star,
day or night, this jewel in the mine,always a wilderness that pulls from earth
its slow dark architectural progress.A boat slips beneath the harbor bridge
a letter that says, by the time you get this,I will be gone. And yet you read there
some tender argument: know that I amthinking of you. Or: please, be not afraid.
The mere mention of fear sounds its owndanger, alone in the harbor, flagged in mist.
Wherever music goes farthest, deepest,you hear the speaker trapped inside it,
longing to be clear. And it is that failure,that is clearest, the hesitant strength,
hope and its refusals, that phrase the matter.It is the need to be there, among the lost,
that carves the marble of all things here.
Copyright © 2022 Bruce Bond All rights reserved
from Liberation of Dissonance
Schaffner Press
Reprinted by Verse Daily® with permission
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