Saturday, September 21, 2013
Crossley-Holland: "The Language of Yes"
THE LANGUAGE OF YES
The world's wreckers are at their games
and everywhere it is late.
Words words words a fury of words
hype and shred and prate,
sanitise, speculate;
they please themselves.
How can I be content
with hollow professions
or the arm's length of the skeptic?
Even with the sensory,
the pig heart's slop-and-mess?
I still want.
Let me make and remake the word
which reveals itself,
unexpected, always various,
and be so curious
(affirmation's mainspring)
I sing the language of yes.
--Kevin Crossley-Holland