Good and its Opposite

      There's a rhyme at the joint point of knowing.
      There's a place, a way of saying, that clearly makes
      "Good" and it opposite resonate, and even ring
      The way a glass cries out when struck-
5     Sharing its invisible essence like a singer.
      Glasses, brim to abyss, display a range
      Of interchanging tones to the ringer
      Who bangs the magnanimous Strange.
      Does a sip sip the Good, or a sip sip the Bad?
10    Either way the song sways, half-empty, half-full.
      The opposite of Good's not Bad, but
      Odd, whose disobedient music's beautiful.
      What words can we sing, for the Good, for the Odd,
      That will make them ring out, spoon-struck, like God?

 

From the collection "Assembling the Earth"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

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