North True South Bright
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Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator. His books include Variations on Dawn and Dusk, which was longlisted for the National Book Awards. His work has been supported by the Lannan, Monfort, and Guggenheim Foundations. He is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.
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North True South Bright - Dan Beachy-Quick
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North/South Composition
When the falcon rose the falcon
Rose to focus
The whole field into a single blade
Of grass the mole did not know not
To move
I would my song worse if truer
If truer my song falconed
My eye wide in falcon’s eye
If the field narrowed as the angle grew
If the field narrowed as the tapered wing rose
I would if truer make my song
The cord the falcon rose upon
The mole’s a student of dirt and dark
I would my song worse if truer
Sing in two my tongue to snap the cord
Tethering its talon to my tooth
And let the falcon free of chord and cord
Though falcon were more me than me
Was my song a feathered thing?—
How sing the sharp wing unbroken
When my mouth is broken wing?—
How be bird but sing the bird
Truer than I sing me
Unless, unless
From talon to tooth the taut cord could bear a
Hand not known to pluck
The taut cord could bear a hand unbidden
To pluck from song
One note which sings us both
No grace on tongue when grace is ease
I know, I’ve begged my tongue
To ease inside the egret’s neck
To ease my tongue into the egret’s neck
Is to speak at least the letter s
Without regret, without regret
On tongue no grace is ease when grace
Is breath held on the edge of a pond
I am not breathless above sheen
Am not still above the dark
Water is not wood
My desk where I am and write is wood
Where I lisp each night the egret’s neck
Where I curse the lamp for sake of light
But do not dim the lamp
No grace on tongue when grace
Is the larch pine blind in the window
Behind my face
No grace when grace
Eases my tongue in the egret’s throat
To say no grace no grace
When I curse the lamp for sake of light
And do not dim
The blind tree is blind outside
In my window I look me in my