Noah Berlatsky

End Words

mind closing

me—

water it

is

substance

stop, want same

grace:

reason, longing, blue

up sight

intention

mouth

breaking

reasons

left

graces

close

circumstances

himself

drips mine

much shelves

description are bunches

etc.

you

them

left me one edge

places it fall

ground it nothing

world mind

enough here

same forgotten place

relief witness

arrival then forward

walking thinking

hole

one flower

together acknowledged there

clouds—three

hands point hours

please away

clearing enough, looking silence

spread us night back

wise are impulse

once

apart

blunders

—

Composed of the last words of each poem in sequence from Robert Creeley’s volume Words

Noah Berlatsky (he/him) published his collection Meaning Is Embarrassing with Ranger Press earlier this year.