In wind’s web
Was my fate,
In trauma’s eye,
In only a smile
As you gave
At moist midnight
When your glance ignited.
Now Mays drone on:
Now I grieve only
For your eyes and hair
All day
In always longing,
dein goldenes Haar Margarete
dein aschenes Haar Shulamith
From “Girly Man” (University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Charles Bernstein is author of “Recalculating” (University of Chicago Press, 2013), “Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions” (Chicago, 2011) and “All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
