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Artificer by Czesław Miłosz - Poems | Academy of American Poets

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Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets,

Artificer Add to anthology × Czesław Miłosz 1911 - 2004 Burning, he walks in the stream of flickering letters, clarinets, machines throbbing quicker than the heart, lopped-off heads, silk canvases, and he stops under the sky and raises toward it his joined clenched fists. Believers fall on their bellies, they suppose it is a monstrance that shines, but those are knuckles, sharp knuckles shine that way, my friends. He cuts the glowing, yellow buildings in two, breaks the walls into motley halves; pensive, he looks at the honey seeping from those huge honeycombs: throbs of pianos, children

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