836
There's more time than life
In stone or expectation;
See the moon and not its sailing--
The stars will turn without you.

835
Metacarpus, epidermis,
Advises all matters five dollars,
And such untrialed whorls--
By practice forepractice told,
By pattern, pattern made--
Let saints and lawyers prate
Upon a parchmented hand;
What's found is undiscovered.

834

833

832

831

830

829

828

827
Fixed by the sun your eye
'Gulfed me in your proxy self--
Brow of sky and sea-winged
Limb horizon-met--
Wide this swerve of beachy hip,
Small your citrus-fronded lip.

826
Of no more moment
Than a sparrow's wintry hunger,
Or the cessation of breath:
A walk in season--
To cloak an hour's circumference
With air,
To careless brush the mote of years
Crystaled, from its waitless cuff.

825

824

823

822

821

820

819

818

817
The thread gentian pressed
In tissue is a paler blue
Than meadowed partner dressed
In nature's graceful hue--
Mind, that spectrum's but a mirror,
And all nature's truth contingent--
Tho seeming at the core--
An interpretation's regnant:
Each under each, perceived,
Perceiving--unasked--receiving.

816

815

814
Cinquefoil sea
Meadow taking me--
Sun-summoned, moon
Saved,
Five-fingered petal-waved
Conjugate ocean--
In two, one motion.

813
The ocean's sea is an island
Whose unsubstanced consequential edge
Bends with the remover
To remove.
No pebbled shore marks these hours and weeks,
But the self-same brine's unpurposed scend
Unstills the still beholder's eye.

812
The starch sea
Lines in hazard that
Hitch mid-stroke--
Away calls to
Epaulet
In coins
Of fountains clipped, sprays
Of jet in manifold desire:
Home caress in duty's
Covert transfer, gems
Of paste as warm.

811