Paul Whybrow
Full Member
The Blue Guitar
Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or it is that,
But don’t use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.
You as you are? You are yourself.
Wallace Stevens
Throw away the lights, the definitions,
And say of what you see in the dark
That it is this or it is that,
But don’t use the rotted names.
How should you walk in that space and know
Nothing of the madness of space,
Nothing of its jocular procreations?
Throw the lights away. Nothing must stand
Between you and the shapes you take
When the crust of shape has been destroyed.
You as you are? You are yourself.
Wallace Stevens
