Noll, Bink

English

University of New Mexico

New Mexico Quarterly
Volume 33 | Issue 1 Article 16
1963
Search for Aircraft in Winter Scene
Bink Noll
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oBINENOLL
SEARCHFOR AlRCRAFT INWlNTERSCE;NE
Across the convulsion ofthe rock
ACIQss~the blank of,winJer that is roCk,
Rockand soilmade ice, iceand the dead,
t Thedead made rock in landscape struck to stone
Cracked into dipand valley, bareboned, .
Heaped,splfutered, emptied, cleared for,us men
To seJrCQ aeross---search for thebroken craft,
For the break in the whitenessofwinter
And for the two mlmed dead. But the lens
Brings- rim aftet rim ofnothirigtoourfeet.
In,the mindrswhit¢ness·men's words for place freeze.
Speech shimmers like mica in the stone air•.
Wherever their 'fallwas stopped was that day
Th~pOleoftheC1'ystalofsilence . .
Wlierewemar.chourterror back and forth.
Throughbla~Skythe glacial sun drills a hole.
It stares. Ifdoes not stare. Ifnames no names,
This unnamed god. But it willmelt again.
The springwill rise. Warmth and food, meaning. green
Will pushaJ:ld thrash the air about the mourners' heads.
Farmers out for game, surveyors with poles~
.. 'Scouts hWngin.heat'will spy thegashpfpaint,
Astrut, a lip, and next the remnarits'of men
For puttingback in family names and graVes.
Then thisblanilandscape willmask,itself .
Incotol'Sofabul1dance•.Th¢worcIs,men put
.Onevery.cot1ter.1illIandbrookwiIlsound
LU:ebirds,backto siug away tms.Winttytmth~
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