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METAPHOR TO ACTION

Whether it is a speaker, taut on a platform, 
who battles a crowd with the hammers of his words, 
whether it is the crash of lips on lips 
after absence and wanting: we must close 
the circuits of ideas, now generate, 
that leap in the body's action or the mind's repose. 
Over us is a striking on the walls of the sky, 
here are the dynamos, steel-black, harboring flame, 
here is the man night-walking who derives 
tomorrow's manifestoes from this midnight's meeting; 
here we require the proof in solidarity, 
iron on iron, body on body, and the large single beating. 
And behind us in time are the men who second us 
as we continue. And near us is our love: 
no forced contempt, no refusal in dogma, the close 
of the circuit in a fierce dazzle of purity. 
And over us is night a field of pansies unfolding, 
charging with heat its softness in a symbol 
to weld and prepare for action our minds' intensity.
- Muriel Rukeyser

Comments

Muriel!

[watashi.livejournal.com]

I love Muriel Rukeyser. Thanks for posting this :)

[fototropical.livejournal.com]

this is fantastic -- thanks for posting Muriel!!