Amy Clampitt

Here you will find thePoemA Silenceof poet Amy Clampitt

A Silence

past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven unicorn the maiden (man-carved worm-eaten) God at her hip incipient the untransfigured cottontail bluebell and primrose growing wild a strawberry chagrin night terrors past the earthlit unearthly masquerade (we shall be changed) a silence opens * the larval feeder naked hairy ravenous inventing from within itself its own raw stuffs' hooked silk-hung relinquishment behind the mask the milkfat shivering sinew isinglass uncrumpling transient greed to reinvest * names have been given (revelation kif nirvana syncope) for whatever gift unasked gives birth to torrents fixities reincarnations of the angels Joseph Smith enduring martyrdom a cavernous compunction driving founder-charlatans who saw in it the infinite love of God and had (George Fox was one) great openings Anonymous submission.