Robert Irwin (American recent)
The best of this impassive cadre of
Words
Is 'flash'.
Accept that some things
Lie more vast
And expensive--
Prohibitive in the curious
Wash that made of
Canyons fresh
Walls
And of rash, human encounters
Momentarily blinding
Forestalls.
See how, at this moment
We run from harm--
Even in the abstract this arm of meaning,
This flailing lash,
So brutal, is yet so self-dependent:
You can't even define the flash
Without using the word--
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