From the forthcoming book Seedings & Other
Poems. Special thanks is hereby expressed to New Directions for
permission to present these poems.
TWENTIETH CENTURY UNLIMITED
as the twentieth century winds down
the nineteenth begins
again
it is as if nothing happened
though those who lived it thought
that everything was happening
enough to name a world for & a time
to hold it in your hand
unlimited the last delusion
like the perfect mask of death