A sentence with "dappled shadow" in it. <br />Something not sayable <br />spurting from the morning silence, <br />secret as a thrush. <br /> <br />The other man, the officer, who brought onions <br />and wine and sacks of flour, <br />the major with the swollen knee, <br />wanted intelligent conversation afterward. <br />Having no choice, she provided that, too. <br /> <br />Potsdamerplatz, May 1945. <br /> <br />When the first one was through he pried her mouth open. <br />Basho told Rensetsu to avoid sensational materials. <br />If the horror of the world were the truth of the world, <br />he said, there would be no one to say it <br />and no one to say it to. <br />I think he recommended describing the slightly frenzied <br />swarming of insects near a waterfall. <br /> <br />Pried her mouth open and spit in it. <br />We pass these things on, <br />probably, because we are what we can imagine. <br /> <br />Something not sayable in the morning silence. <br />The mind hungering after likenesses. "Tender sky," etc., <br />curves the swallows trace in air.<br /><br />Robert Hass<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/winged-and-acid-dark/
