And then the crowd roars
And then the crowd roars–
but why are they roaring?
What are they roaring for?
When you repeat a word
like roaring several times
it starts to come undone inside
your head. It turns
inside out, or upside down
and lurches side to side
without explanation.
Before you can speak
or look, the whole thing’s
over. Like conviction
meaning proves
a co-dependent thing.
The shape of the sound
the shape of the sense:
one dull breaker after
another, foaming white
the fell roar gonging
becoming a ringing
even the singing of birds
reduced to something
that might have been
that wasn’t, or isn’t anymore.
The seething narrows
near the shore go on roaring.