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.