CHARLES OLSON(1910-1970) READING HIS POEM 'THE LIBRARIAN' IN MARCH 1966

Out of breath, looking

ten years older than his age

(although back then, as

we might remember,

people looked older than

they do now),

a voice dry, from that mouth

that long ago stopped

moving, breathing, the

mouth that, out of breath,

fires out these hurried sentences

through time, the hand

so vigorously moving

between him and us, in

that long gone night. A

fragment captured and

cast, thrown to fade.

26.11.2017

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