Improvisation 1
by Jerome Rothenberg
Improvisation 1
foreshadowed
a fat child
blind
among the dead
now crawling
over the heaps of
sleeping bodies
since divided
gagging
split in quarters
comes to life
again
flat on the pavement
until it rises
to engorge his body
barely
where it
abandons shape
foreshadowed
time & space
dissolved
& done with