The poet, no less than the scientist,
works on the assumption that inert and
live things and relations hold enough
interest to keep him alive as part of nature.
—Louis Zukofsky


I. Adagio


dark green radiance
beast snarl
yellow shadow

lucidity, touch,
blood, pulse

-.- 

moon black empyrean fire,
awe,
stone cascade

body, eye, birth,
laugh


II. Night Music, moderately fast


the halcyon sun
opens
and captures
night’s raging epiphanies

hands love
in a cool wood

-.- 

poems and paeans
move time
in celebrations

the blue bird
dreams
of hot, coiling play


III. Like a shadow


hair
ear

globe
roar

flesh
flash

white
song

spectrum

life 
mystery

-.-

mouth 
smile

pleasure
dance

wind
tracery

energy
yield

pool

shining
image


IV. Night Music, slowly, lovingly


melodies whir,
muscles glory,

the locale lights,
red embraces,

and ecology
mixes April

-.-

tones breathe,
touch charges,

and justice circuits:

once-blooming leaves water October earth


V. Rondo-Finale


Blake’s mission:

a Flowering Heart,
Delight in the Lungs,

Calm Trance,

a gold cloud
at gloaming

-.-

Mahler’s Vision:

Eternal Atonement,
Music’s Exuberance,

Air & Waterfalls

Come, Death-Spirit!