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Prelude to Cornell

by Kathleen Wilson


"Home, Poor Heart, You Cannot Rediscover If The Dream Alone Does Not Suffice", Hoelderlin (collage on masonite, Joseph Cornell, 1963)

on the walk
to his exhibit
I'm already
set into his box

(tiny shells
tinfoil
wooden balls
love letters)


a flower
in my hair
he's plucked
a mirrored past

(tinted glass
North of the Sea
colored sands
starry maps)


above my head a branch
from sidewalk tree
and perched doves
in a line

collaged woman with entrance ticket
up the stairs
her constellation
pen and poem


"Now Voyager
sail thou forth
to seek
and find."

--Whitman, Leaves of Grass 1871

12/29/2007

Author's Note: from San Francisco, a prelude to the Cornell poems

Posted on 12/30/2007
Copyright © 2024 Kathleen Wilson

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