810

809

808

807

806

805
To perspective multipedes
Of onlyness,
Is city sky--
To wides of stone and narrows roofed--
And lens-- all eyes in one encapsuled.

804
Sensing thought in shadows of leaves
Was my self-conversion--
To read the semaphore
Of green conversation,
A natural dispensation.
Now is my proximal fellow
Both ocean creation
And sky-wrought simplification.

803

802
Necessary at a remove--
Compulsion's intention--
To keep ajar the sealed valve
Of doors.
Letters to oneself
Unwritten, lodged--there--
In a gesture,
A rotation of a hand
To recall the grasp to its devising.

801

800

799

798
I saw a bird fly in the night--
It seemed that she could see
The nature of a path that was
Invisible to me.
Instead of dark impediment
But feeding inner cast--
A sustenance interior
Made future what was past.
Vermillion was created twice,
The second at her cost--
Avian--assumed--submitted--
A shell of love unglossed.

797

796
A loom of storm the muse,
Voiceless to change the air--
Without electric conviction's
False strike and instant shadow--
As Io by Saturn skyed--
Await calamity.

795

793

792

791

790

789

788
The bridge must bear the carriage,
Or no bridge be--
But you, beyond breath,
What quality?
The song unthought is not a score--
I see a shadow, nothing more;
And I, like shadow, in your eye,
Categorical--defy.

787

786

785
The city church
Fronts appointed haste.
The spiritual man
Hinged slant to the stone presence
Sits astep--landscape
Guised, grimed, smoking
Hand-rolled,
Psalm toned
Accompaniment
To his vesper tot
In pocket.

784

783

782

781

780

779
Opportunity spright,
You darting bird
To catch a fellow
Fled oblivion.
In the harrow
Is heaven next;
Of it--
The world a field.

778

777
Tested fear lays his ribbon
Red as guidance down
In wide supposition's unposted race.
.
Light will have her strict shadow
Yet the cast's design's depending
On the unfixed eye's hapless place.
.
The red runs through
The field become
Stippled subjective
And other--
My foot falls
And eye--
On dark and bright.

776

775

774

773
The moon's in the window
Diminished--such glory,
To be small--
A far note become melody
In remembrance--
Sharp now deflected.
Peripheral; not to essay
A reflection.

772

771

770

769
Snow autumn
Yellow ginkgo
Wings of butter-
Fly abandoned
From startled grasp--such
Inclement news!

768

767
To notch the epoch
Upon time's rule,
And name it category--
Or tell a being that her thoughts
Encordoned lie
Within temporal whim--
Would great circumference
Crimp to small--
Or throne a pearl,
Entire queen--
Her crown beyond your reach.

766

765
Were inadequate certain to beauty,
Might the gap the measure be
Of necessity?
The scale bent: mending balance--
Grace--the misshape of perfection.

[>a.]

764

763
How different in the passage,
Season and eye, of propinquity
To furtive end?
Guarded additions, scroll sky--then--
Hushed discollection.

762

761