Poetry: The Clause - C.K. Williams

(via The Writer's Almanac)

Poem: 'The Clause' by C.K. Williams from The Singing. (c) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

This entity I call my mind, this hive of restlessness,
this wedge of want my mind calls self,
this self which doubts so much and which keeps reaching,
keeps referring, keeps aspiring, longing, towards some state
from which ambiguity would be banished, uncertainty expunged; [...]"