Homage to XAuthor(s): Charles WrightSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Summer, 1970), p. 18Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157597 .

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HOMAGE TO X

The red earth, the light diffuse

In the flat-leaved limbs of the trees; A cold, perpetual rain

As though from a heaving breast; O loved ones, O angels

. . .

The thing, as always, begins

In transit, the water infusion

Oily and phosphorescent? The vine is a blue light, The cup is a star.

In the dream you will see a city,

Foreign and repetitious, The plants unspeakably green; This is of no concern; your job Is the dust, the belly-relinquishing dust.

It's the day before yesterday; It's the other side of the sky:

The body that bears your number

Will not be new, will not be your own

And will not remember your name.

Prague/Prague-Strashnitz

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