Mind on Paper

SIX POEMS

MIND ON PAPER

Hardly can you spare the swift spirit's purgatory

Nor hardly share in his grief

For he who has set himself to survey

The frozen limits of thought

Must ponder through his love alone.

Reflect on the forces he shall encounter

Who tests the power of words:

Though emerging clear as a telescope lens

No measure of sensitized speech can hold

For long an unmelted sparkle against the sun.