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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Under the Influence

      “Pearl, great sphere, and hollow,
Mist over lake, full of sunlight” (Ezra Pound, Canto XXIX)
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sidewalks blessed by drizzle & a fistful of damp sand

            All that copper & steel bending in the waves
                        a southwest swell I knew was on its way by the
                                    ache in my knees

How exactly would you bargain w/these chronicles of mist?

So many days spent plunging through
and against the drift

            your silver ring
                        pearl pendant and the light
                                    jade or turquoise or amber
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“The boat was one curved shell of hollow pearl
Almost translucent with the light divine
Of her within” (PB Shelley, The Revolt of Islam)
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A high-speed low-pressure system
defining both the sky
& you             
            your empty pearls my tidewater shades
the beach all broken
                        the sky sliding along silver wires
wherever we were going as good a place as any