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