Grasping Echoes: Hypostasis & New Year

grasping-echoes:

HYPOSTASIS & NEW YEAR

By Peter Gizzi

For why am I afraid to sing
the fundamental shape of awe
should I now begin to sing the silvered back of
the winter willow spear
the sparkling agate blue
would this blade and this sky free me to speak
intransitive lack –

the vowels themselves free

Of what am I afraid