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   BEATITUDE #22-b
2 poems by lloyd honeycutt

       If
  words
          knew
              what
                  words
                            are
                           they'd
                                place
                            eachother
                                         along
                                                 the
                                                  path
                                                        at
                                                          day
                                                          and
                                                       trace
                                       themselves
                                                 home
                                                 at
                                        night.
                             meeting
                    eachother
              thoughtless.
                      never
           mistaking
    themselves
                   for
              the
       path.




   if
     they
            met
                wild
                 geese
                      they'd
                             honk
                                great
                            yelps
                         high
                           in
                        the
                  suns
          mating
latitudes.

 

 

 

 

 if
     they
           met
         silence
               they'd       
         vanish
    before
     you
could

 

 

 

 

 

 

say

 

HOPI                               (1965)

Among dried meats and indian corn
hanging in the sun
in the ancient lyrical settlements
hano   walpi   sichomovi
my still unfinished death goes on

I am love there, etched like silver
berft of time, marking my years
in descents of first mesa
down her rusty paths from hano

                               

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