Whatever interest
there was in
difference’s gone.
She rolls the sounds
around and around.
A piece of speech
falls out of her mouth.
“A peace
of speech,”
says Ginsberg.
Like the Big Note
of which all music
is the resonance
is the poetic sentence.
You’re a piece
of the same person
I’m a piece of.
—Tom Clark, from “A Sailor’s Life”
Photography Credit Will Govus
