Edward Smallfield
obit
Williams’ death was a boy’s
death (Oppen)
things happen
smoke toys
the poet’s room is a boy’s
room (or a girl’s) something snaps
inside tap tap tap tap
an end to all this noise
moving of the earth quakes
to die like a philosopher with his boots
on roots
grip down & begin to awaken
his particular earthbound flash
a slow match ashes
equinox
in burnt
September
deer
in life in poems as if it weren’t
all ever so slightly bent
perhaps someone wants you to remember
that sudden skittish girlish deer
nothing can be learned
a birth
-day
what you depart from is not the way
this life on the earth
a translation
from nothingness an invasion