In a limpidity of silences

Speaks what is unanswerable

And is answered.

In a limpidity of silences

The laurelled heads turn

Away from death

And away from life and all

Other trivial little dissolutions.

In a limpidity of silences

Sleep the laurelled heads.

-Kenneth Patchen, from Limpidity of Silences  

Happy Birthday, Kanneth Patchen