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Incapable of a thing in youth
And age incapable with words
And without.
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Not through sundial need,
But desire forest-leaved
Ever fraction lit.
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In the clearing is a space of earth and answering sky,
In rude mirror silent,
Self-sufficient.

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Out the window my cigarette
Bodys the uncircumstanced air.
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In the day stream--
The vagrant happenstance of 1st Ave--
A finger might be dipped, a still drop held there.
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On your little porch, how the shadows
Set the ivy, just so.

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By my own motion did I secondly devise
An unlocking of best locked.
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A fine-haired limb
Peremptory: be gone; serve.
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In act three scene two
The car port was a square of sun.

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Incongruous today, local circumstance--
Intuition-slid and reason shown back
Unpatterned, self-broken.
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In the arboretum the rooks looked but coldly upon me
Amid the indexed green;
"Pretender," they said, "shadow."
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Next dawn will the horizon straight,
And the eaves pitch obedient,
In despite of the eye and through it, both.

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The complexity of this armature
In consonant surround,
Is desire and pain.
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What easement found,
What addition to natured ambiguity,
In this love's shorthand?
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A slightness in the ocean
Would help, a change in the weather
Of my character.

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Of somewhere. Of someone.
Untransacted.
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At the airport depot
The containers were moving off.
On a monitor: intertwinement
Unknot to fingers. Farewell.
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Somewhere. Dislocation's isolate
State, in the sun's glare,
Disqualitied, whole to part.

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