Barthes Valentine

Maybe only poetry can tell us
if it’s trying to escape language
for a better way of life on its own
which is the philosophy

side of it all and that such

questions can only be broached
in broken lines perhaps
but think of a word at the moment
it slides from invisible spirit
into writing which is just returning
to its desk after lovemaking
and to put down yourself
in order to pick up the world
like a star in your tweezers
another experience of love for
those who survive the disjunctions