Sentence

by John Taggart

John Taggart

What comes like a thief
in the night what other than a thief by day summer day

what sentence
other than a sentence

to translate and to go on translating

each layer each carnal layer of meaning to
the final layer final predicate of the final layerless layer by the final
sigh
of the final syllable

into the only possible consummation the only possible
translation complete perfect

of silence into
silence.





Last updated October 24, 2022