You Cannot Rest
–Frank BidartThe trick was to give yourself only to what
could not receive what you had to give,leaving you as you wished, free.
Still you court the world by enacting yet oncemore the ecstatic rituals of enthrallment.
You cannot rest. The great groundingevents in your life (weight lodged past
change, like the sweetest, most fantastical mythenshrining yet enslaving promise), the great
grounding events that left you so changedyou cannot conceive your face without their
happening, happened when someonecould receive. Just as she once did, he did—past
judgment of pain or cost. Could receive. Did.