David Radavich
What are blue stars,
circles of light,
music of geographies?
How does love compute
or grass remember?
What puzzle
whose solution begs
beyond time?
Suddenly you come alive
in your images
in ways that
escape memory—
I will never be able
to follow you
into that labyrinth
of being
which is
every human—
without words
without veins or eyes
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David Radavich’s latest narrative collection, America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery (2019) is a companion to his earlier America Bound: An Epic for Our Time (2007). Recent lyric collections are Middle-East Mezze (2011) and The Countries We Live In (2014). His plays have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe.