from Serene as Bronze, Viewing Henry Moore

2.

I am eternity

you may try me with a chisel

I am an instant

at your light touch

transcendent

3.

I am a block of bronze

you think is stone

I am a shout

you think is silent

Or I am both

a secret perfectly round

What you see in me

is what I see in you

a prelife

4.

Is there a poet

who dares stand on my shoulder

to read out a love poem

If his girlfriend

feels embarrassed

and turns away,

Mr. Henry Moore

may blame me

or himself

6.

How strange

that guard

who doesn’t guard

lets that girl

place a rose

on my

chest

Oh, I

see, because

the rose

is beautiful

the girl is

I’m beautiful

because

that guard

simply

guards

with one eye

“the beauty”

8.

Before you

I can’t refuse nakedness

I am marble

Before me

you can’t refuse transparency

you’re oblivious

of yourself

13.

Yang

Yang includes goats and sheep

Both goats and sheep

like to leap

Henry Moore

comes up the mountain

pulls out a bronze bell

smooth bronze

no inscription

no pattern

Silent as bronze

the goats listen,

the sheep