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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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The lake isn't there in the silence.
Its mute reflections and shored tongues
Are carelessly small.
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There is no god benignant receptor
To a moon's second reflection
In this engraced minimum.
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Lake the sphere,
And duplicate the stars thereon:
Oh beauty! Glory to none.

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After the storm
Its fretted ghost lingered--
Pre-memory of the season's turn.
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And did her voice now gone
Shape still the familiar place,
New-stranged by some alchemy?

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The null view is a good start,
Bearing fruit of unrivaled
Lightness tasting of time.
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The settling moon segmented
By distant constructs recalls
My hours' burdened artifice.
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This space here has passed
Ungrasped yet qualitied
Why with the bitter anguish
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Of constructed futures
Blighted by my seemed doing,
And mistimed calculation.

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Edgewise secret and serene
In oblique perception--
In the directed gaze,
Obliteration.
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Her cheekbone's beach stone rounded,
Deformed in laughter
Hid in the garden air,
Near lost in misapprehension.
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In the space between the words
Speak the eye and gesture
With obedience single to none,
But unwrought signal to one.

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What luxury in an absence
Of sense a current Lethe
A mirror blank a memory
One minute's length.
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In the unsanctuary the tincted air does not pass
Nor a drop grace a blade;
The sun's dusk-stilled
Light shadow-harnessed.
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No event subtracted
No grief dislodged
But an absence of attachment
A self unshelled.

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Foreshortened death: the end as ever within the beginning,
Silently folding up the blanket from the corners
Whilst we toy with plates and corks.
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Observe the spring sky: the green concert hall--
Hushed for one breath,
And two eternities in the pause.
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For then we have gone
And the leafed strings and acorned oboes
Play to the clement air.

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From unmixed intention scattered consequence,
From one love, all,
And dislove returning.
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Discretion's quality mirrored--
Autistic indirection--
Is a solipsist's gift.
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In chance endeavors
Of promiscuous sentimentality,
The sequent edge cuts both.

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