821

820

819

818

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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

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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.

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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.