I Know Some Pains
I know some pains about hurt—
hump-shouldered hurt, wrung-down hurt,
shuffled slow like a deaf shadow,
thick-tongued and hung to the bell.
Peeled ears limp down at the blurt
of sound down to my dun woe,
numbing me with down-going gong,
wringing me with heavy, club-foot hurt.
AND I feel how fey love lights
high there, airy-sphered and glowing,
floating fancy-high, dancing ballet-bright:
glowing-golden ball of rites
me below—with hurt, hunched-down hurt,
dragging black across the humming nave,
mute and lumpish, dinned-down hurt.
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