Purdah Analysis

The Collected Poems1962Jade --

Stone of the side,

The antagonizedSide of green Adam, I

Smile, cross-legged,

Enigmatical,Shifting my clarities.

So valuable!

How the sun polishes this shoulder!And should

The moon, my

Indefatigable cousinRise, with her cancerous pallors,

Dragging trees --

Little bushy polyps,Little nets,

My visibilities hide.

I gleam like a mirror.At this facet the bridegroom arrives

Lord of the mirrors!

It is himself he guidesIn among these silk

Screens, these rustling appurtenances.

I breathe, and the mouthVeil stirs its curtain

My eye

Veil isA concatenation of rainbows.

I am his.

Even in hisAbsence, I

Revolve in my

Sheath of impossibles,Priceless and quiet

Among these parrakeets, macaws!

O chatterersAttendants of the eyelash!

I shall unloose

One feather, like the peacock.Attendants of the lip!

I shall unloose

One noteShattering

The chandelier

Of air that all day fliesIts crystals

A million ignorants.

Attendants!Attendants!

And at his next step

I shall unlooseI shall unloose --

From the small jeweled

Doll he guards like a heart --The lioness,

The shriek in the bath,

The cloak of holes.

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