The Caledonian Antisyzgy
Slipping back within my city’s walls,
in the pin-prick dead of night,
I hesitate: is it wrong to call
so late? And have I the wherewithal
for less than a sound-bite,
words parsed from under your dry stone wall?
Where there’s a wull,
there’s a receiver. Right?
If ah stand amang the birks an’ pine trees, ca’
Loud enough, ah cannae fail.
Right? This distance is our leitmotif.
I put my back up to the wall
and let your voice fill
me till I am simply a device
for responding to your call.
Now is this peace and am I well,
in Manhattan on a Tuesday night,
2003, your poem on my wall,
manifest counterpoint to my call?
in the pin-prick dead of night,
I hesitate: is it wrong to call
so late? And have I the wherewithal
for less than a sound-bite,
words parsed from under your dry stone wall?
Where there’s a wull,
there’s a receiver. Right?
If ah stand amang the birks an’ pine trees, ca’
Loud enough, ah cannae fail.
Right? This distance is our leitmotif.
I put my back up to the wall
and let your voice fill
me till I am simply a device
for responding to your call.
Now is this peace and am I well,
in Manhattan on a Tuesday night,
2003, your poem on my wall,
manifest counterpoint to my call?
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