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