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a man may change

1/4/2013

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As simply as a self-effacing bar of soap
escaping by indiscernible degrees in the wash water   
is how a man may change
and still hour by hour continue in his job.   
There in the mirror he appears to be on fire   
but here at the office he is dust.
So long as there remains a little moisture in the stains,
he stands easily on the pavement
and moves fluidly through the corridors. If only one   
cloud can be seen, it is enough to know of others,
and life stands on the brink. It rains
or it doesn’t, or it rains and it rains again.
But let it go on raining for forty days and nights   
or let the sun bake the ground for as long,   
and it isn’t life, just life, anymore, it’s living.
In the meantime, in the regular weather of ordinary days,
it sometimes happens that a man has changed   
so slowly that he slips away
before anyone notices
and lives and dies before anyone can find out.

by Marvin Bell, “A Man May Change” from Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000. Copyright © 2000 by Marvin Bell. Reprinted with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P. O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.coppercanyonpress.org
Source: Nightworks: Poems 1962-2000 (Copper Canyon Press, 2000)http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/175942

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