A Codex

It was a late book given up for lost again and again with its sentences bare at last and phrases that seemed transparent revealing what had been there the whole way the poems of daylight after the day lying open at last on the table without explanation or emphasis like sounds left when the syllables have gone clarifying the whole grammar of waiting not removing one question from the air or closing the story although single lights were beginning by then above and below while the long twilight deepened its silence from sapphire through opal to Athena’s iris until shadow covered the gray pages the comet words the book of presences after which there was little left to say but then it was night and everything was known From 'The Shadow Of Sirius' Publisher: Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2008)