Narcissus And Echo by Fred Chappell
Narcissus And Echo by Fred Chappell
Narcissus And Echo
Shall the water not remember   Ember
my hand’s slow gesture, tracing about   of
its mirror my half-imaginary   airy
portrait? My only belonging   longing;
is my beauty, which I take   ache
away and then return, as love   of
of teasing playfully the one being   unbeing.
whose gratitude I treasure   Is your
moves me. I live apart   heart
from myself, yet cannot   not
live apart. In the water’s tone,   stone?
that brilliant silence, a flower   Hour,
whispers my name with such slight   light:
moment, it seems filament of air,   fare
the world become cloudswell.   well.