April 12, 2018: The Universe as Primal Scream, Tracy K. Smith

The Universe as Primal Scream Tracy K. Smith

5pm on the nose. They open their mouths And it rolls out: high, shrill and metallic. First the boy, then his sister. Occasionally, They both let loose at once, and I think Of putting on my shoes to go up and see Whether it is merely an experiment Their parents have been conducting Upon the good crystal, which must surely Lie shattered to dust on the floor.

Maybe the mother is still proud Of the four pink lungs she nursed To such might. Perhaps, if they hit The magic decibel, the whole building Will lift-off, and we’ll ride to glory Like Elijah. If this is it—if this is what Their cries are cocked toward—let the sky Pass from blue, to red, to molten gold, To black. Let the heaven we inherit approach.

Whether it is our dead in Old Testament robes, Or a door opening onto the roiling infinity of space. Whether it will bend down to greet us like a father, Or swallow us like a furnace. I’m ready To meet what refuses to let us keep anything For long. What teases us with blessings, Bends us with grief. Wizard, thief, the great Wind rushing to knock our mirrors to the floor, To sweep our short lives clean. How mean

Our racket seems beside it. My stereo on shuffle. The neighbor chopping onions through a wall. All of it just a hiccough against what may never Come for us. And the kids upstairs still at it, Screaming like the Dawn of Man, as if something They have no name for has begun to insist Upon being born. ==

More like this: Another Reason Why I Don ’t Keep a Gun in the House, Billy Collins

Also by Tracy K. Smith: I Don’t Miss It On this day in: 2017: Soul, David Ferry 2016: Turkeys, Galway Kinnell 2015: He Said Turn Here, Dean Young 2014: I Don’t Miss It, Tracy K. Smith 2013: Hotel Orpheus, Jason Myers 2012: Emily Dickinson’s To-Do List, Andrea Carlisle 2011: Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think, Frank O’Hara 2010: The Impossible Marriage, Donald Hall 2009: The Rider, Naomi Shihab Nye 2008: from Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, John Berryman 2007: This Heavy Craft, P.K. Page 2006: Late Ripeness, Czeslaw Milosz 2005: A Martian Sends A Postcard Home, Craig Raine

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I couldn’t decide which version I want on a shirt for myself so I think I’ll get both made! If I make more (once I figure out how? advice welcome!) I’ll look into this one getting a few too!

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What’s updog

him

I’m furious

Finnrey is a valid het ship because they’re just weird? They’re that weird couple you support? You catch up with them and ask them how they are and Rey says they went underwater basket weaving and went on a fifteen mile hike and also saved eight California condors today and they’re just such an odd couple that you nod and say wow that’s awesome and believe them

Nobody cares for you anymore.

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