Summer 2008, #15
       "Convenient Acts of Human Behavior"
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Hermetic Psalm

     by Brad Richard

Say one note, or no note: a spasm,
a pinch of the lyre's string, say

what you need of the god you hear
in the twang of fingertip and wire,

a song unsinging the god, ache
waning in blood and bone and air,

and no kiss, no falling together of word
and body, body and world, no singer

to sing world and you as one note
held whole in the god's ear. Listen:

the god caressing your spine
is this song forgetting you.




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