The Man with the Blue Guitar XIX

That I may reduce the monster to

Myself, and then may be myself

In face of the monster, be more than part

Of it, more than the monstrous player of

One of its monstrous lutes, not be

Alone, but reduce the monster and be.

Two things, the two together as one.

And play of the monster and of myself.

Or better not of myself at all,

But of that as its intelligence.

Being the lion in the lute

Before the lion locked in stone.