The Primer
She said, I love you.
He said, Nothing.
(As if there were just one
of each word and the one
who used it, used it up).
In the history of language
the first obscenity was silence.
Amendment
The love of each of us
for some of us,
of some of us
for all of us—
and what would come if it were
welcome, if learning were
to prepare “a self with which to
welcome”
the in-
admissible, stranger
whose very being gives
evidence of
a discrepancy. School of our just
beginning to think
about this, I believe
the seats will be peopled.