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In the end
a dog carries in his jaws
his image in the water,
people rivet the new moon.
I love you.
Like caryatids
our lifted arms
hold up time's granite load.
and defeated
we shall always win.
The ideas of the narcissistic dog carrying his own image and the moon being riveted bring up in metaphor what poets have feared from science -- the self-involved, inhumane machine -- which is why Holub's phrase "I love you" arrives so aptly.
(The Holub poems appear in "Intensive Care: Selected and New Poems." Oberlin College Press. 1996. )
Mary Karr has published four books of poems, most recently "Sinners Welcome."
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