On a line by FOH*

for Maureen OH

"music must die

but poetry is silent joy"**

or I thought poetry must die

but music is silent joy

or architecture might die

but silence is joy without doubt

or poetry must not die

but architecture must die,

that temporary shelter!

Or architecture must not die

But poetry is doubtful joy

(in: In Memory of an Angel, 2017, p. 62)

*   FOH - Frank O'Hara

** from the poem entitled "Two Russian Exiles: an Ode" by F. O'Hara.