Poems

PATRICK MILIAN
The Music Theories

            Nadia and Lili Boulanger separately and at once

 

 

                                                                        War is something

           

                                                                        inside of

 

                                                                        it.

 

                                                                        This is what makes it

 

                                                                        gorgeously unendurable.

 

                                                                        Sound is a pronoun:

 

                                                                        camouflaged im-

 

                                                                        possibility.

 

                                                                        We

 

                                                                        hear inside the

 

                                                                        only

 

                                                                        violence, and

 

                                                                        tension resolves

 

                                                                        to take

 

                                                                        another name.

 

 

You feel most fully

when you’re fleeing

this and just

like being in love.

Do you shadowplay the solo?

Shifter and shifted,

materiality

realized.

Shadow what we

mind incompletely:

a story with

loss and,

because we want it,

another name.


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