BlazeVOX2k3 : Harriet Zinnes

Harriet Zinnes has published eight books of poetry, two collections of short stories, a book on Ezra Pound (New Directions) and is Professor Emerita of English of Queens College of the City University of New York. She is also a contributing editor of the DENVER QUARTERLY and of THE HOLLINS CRITIC as well as an art critic for THE NEW YORK ARTS MAGAZINE.



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Into It, Out of It

Into it
and out of it
like a bird flying

And the wind the wind
swiftly blowing

And the rain the rain
slowly pelting

And the footsteps the footsteps
noiselessly groping

toward the which and the when
that are heedlessly hoping.

Wings

Astonishment flies
going beyond the eyes.
It has wings
to encircle a nowhere that bewilders
the very “I” that wishes to let go.

I open my eyes to a cloud
that whispers and focuses me
yet quickly escapes my vision.

Is it I? Is it ego?
The question remains
even as a bird has wings;
wings that fly.