RIMBAUD IN PARIS (version 2)

A thousand poems
burnt through
his

brains, while one
night pooled
wetly

at my feet

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(after HOLY THE FIRM by Annie Dillard, Harper & Row, 1977)

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from NOTA BENE, a manuscript-in-progress

RIMBAUD IN PARIS

A thousand poems
burnt through
his

brains, while one
night pooled
wetly

at my feet.
O Poet--
Descend!




(after HOLY THE FIRM by Annie Dillard, Harper & Row, 1977)
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--from NOTA BENE, a manuscript-in-progress