A Grief Earned, Upon A Lover Leaving, Elegiac Intonations - Beginning & Ending With Lines From Shelley Poem by Warren Falcon

for Vajra, after Krsna

1
Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind,
I have been taken up into grief, the strange
relief of clouds. Soon departed, I shall be
once again returned to disquieted prayer,
the proud monk to his rites rejoined
such are covers for disjointedness.

Adroit is the spoiled self touching only
late that of Other, of Beauty, Adonais
dead then, when Mr. Shelley once young,
now always, has clung moderne, as much
as, as soon as he can deny, spurn, return
a Vision toward the vital air.

He has the advantage of an Eastern detachment.


2
I meanwhile to walls stick, to
sheets, this cup, full, cannot release.

I step, my foot remains to boards
stuck, must walk inwardly restrained,

halt, try to, misstep, the usual tread
of, with, my heart.


3
With heart will I to Guatemala go,

there a Mayan lover do some good,

to active volcanoes,

deepest lake

with creatures strange -

axolotls,

pink,

delicate,


and one fountain send
where I need to go -


there, continually letting

go the hollows, release

the following tread

and the after-flow.


Feeling grief's all,

I follow to where all is fled.

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Lines from Percy Bysshe Shelley's elegy upon the death of John Keats, 'Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc'

- 1 Here, on one fountain of a mourning mind - from Stanza 51

- 2 and one fountain send where I need to go - from Stanza 52

- 3 follow to where all is fled - from Stanza 52