1504

1503
An abbreviated sensorium's
Of desire part-
What's wrought in sense's unwrought
In desire's narrow art.
A focus wants excess
To wide a border make
About what's wanted and the rest,
Less part in partial's sake.
New-shadowed is the world outside
When a world is lit in one,
Blind or deaf without demur
If there be a second sun.

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1496

The tree in a field of snow-

What continues?

In the stillness

Signs of motion pock the crust-

A small-pawed past made future

To the present eye.

What continues when the snow receding

Makes tongues upon the earth,

And the unfigured air's the sublimated signs

Turning now to what is once?

A still unravished hour before those intervening,

But memory's yet to come.

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1487

1486

The difficulty of the information

Is interstitial-

The lightness of its complexity

Iridescent

In another's eye's reflection,

Is to its bearer a grave teleologic

Wing of ached tautness.

Young lady, flight speaks

When words are scattered light,

The insubstantial air

Both tells and shows

Your due weight.

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1477
The pleasing curves of snow
Old as wind
And arcs of sun
In flares of white that counterswerve
And terrace
To vortices that round a square
And dune aridity in shapes of song,
And purpose the eye's music,
Summon one, a degree in the round.

1476

1475 (Isako Saneyoshi)