The whole world is set on fire.

The Last of the Mohicans

So much change in the wild. Sometimes we must hold vigil.

From Rachel Blau Duplessis, her excellent book "Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft, Unnumbered: Précis"

Draft 52 : Midrash

1.

Poetry/ Auschwitz/ barbaric.

Oblique triangle.

Also

human litter

has not ceased/ to be/ created.

2.

and face What Is, that it is, that this
happened. As such. The finger points--
     troubling toll through sediment--
     at unspeakable untellable yod,
     wood, leather, fabric, organic char, ash of ash, then
     also       there is the tiredness
of pursuing    anything
like this.