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Monday, April 27, 2015

Only the red fox, the crow,Charles Olson


Charles Olson, "Only the Red Fox, Only the Crow"

You who came after us
you who can live
when we are not 
make much of love

You to whom the spring can return
when we will merely correlate a worm
enjoy the envy 
in this blind glance

You who shall have the earth
and one another,
the government of noon,
do not fail us, dance

We shall not know, but you
remember this: the two-edged worth
of loveliness
The night's for talking and for kissing

And when, on summer field
two horses run for joy
like figures on a beach
your mind will find us, 
as we have found,
within its reach.

This, then, under the leaves
or under snow,
you who come after us,
we send you for envoy:
make most of love.

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