Chris Agee
Sebald
1944-2001
On and off, I had been musing about vistas
Of simultaneity: the continuum between, say,
In a natural sense, fresh graves in Afghanistan
And the abysmal plain on the Marianas Trench
Lit by the spectral traceries of bioluminescence; or,
In the social, sipping coffee as Srebrenica happened
In waves of twenty-plus. How -- at any one time -- everything
Is happening in a single world-image like tens of millions
Of words in the Babel of thousands of tongues coexisting
In its archive of consciousness.That interior Friday
In the Year of the Buddhas, it might have happened
As I paused for a moment at a window over Royal Avenue
Or collected my daughter's last photographs amid the sad
Crepuscule of the framing shop. Now, over coffee, reading
Of seiceamóir and cuileann in Trees of Ireland,
I think of his great endings: a last glimpse of the land
now being lost forever and reaching the town
as evening began to fall: and hope
His noble German soul and hers in miniature
Are travelling forever into the dark land of eternal light.
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