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Klaus Nordby • Poems GreeN PurPle blue red
The Art of second sight
1990
We need a means supplying scenes to see
Of things that are and things that ought to be;
Through gifts from others’ eyes and minds and hands
We may see vistas from our own homelands;
Through views which we can give our full consent
Some precious moments of respite are lent.
This is the Art of Second Sight,
It shows a world that seems all right.
But not with others’ sightings well content
I sought more worthy worlds to represent;
Now thanks to my own eye and mind and hand
I found land I was first to understand:
I courted likely fictions to create
For dream-begotten facts to contemplate,
And through the Art of Second Sight,
I make a world that feels all right.
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But feelings not merely from sense arise,
These also stem from sums that soothe the eyes:
Smooth shapes of light and line and hue
Yield views that I with beauty, too, imbue;
These let me face the things I want to be
In the sole way that’s truly real to me.
So through the Art of Second Sight,
I have a world that looks all right.
In these pure sights, my longings lie declared
— But left with me, my work would live impaired:
For my request — my craving — with my art
Is your assenting mind and greeting heart,
My work’s for you to take or you to leave . . .
But if the latter, this may me aggrieve,
Since through my Art of Second Sight,
We’d share a world that is all right!
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