i have turned my back for the time being
i have turned my back
for the time being
on longing.
i wish to take a stab
at wanting, because
wanting is so much
feasibler
for one
alone.
take the depicted
st. sebastian
in several much-vaunted paintings:
to be tied up and stabbed
all over with arrows,
some would see this
as longing, but
longing has no
true metaphoric
bearing
on his
situation--
it is wanting
that st. sebastian achieves
against his sharp-barked tree.
he has succeeded
in truly experiencing
the stab of desire.
for a figure of longing
with tree and arrow,
the inviolate son of william tell
will do well.
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