Prefix: Finding The Measure Poem by Robert Kelly

Prefix: Finding The Measure



Finding the measure is finding the mantram,
is finding the moon, as index of measure,
is finding the moon's source;

if that source
is Sun, finding the measure is finding
the natural articulation of ideas.

The organism
of the macrocosm, the organism of language,
the organism of I combine in ceaseless naturing
to propagate a fourth,
the poem,
from their trinity.

Style is death. Finding the measure is finding
a freedom from that death, a way out, a movement
forward.

Finding the measure is finding the
specific music of the hour,
the synchronous
consequence of the motion of the whole world.

Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: poetry
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Robert Kelly

Robert Kelly

Brooklyn, New York
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