AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University
AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University
AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University
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3. THE PACT<br />
I made <strong>the</strong> pact and changed<br />
charged<br />
with a purpose and sheaf of selves<br />
severed vision with innumerable cuts<br />
till I lay everywhere<br />
listening <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> last of me find me<br />
through bedclo<strong>the</strong>s, bolts of soil<br />
heard Earth resume<br />
before silence pulled me under. flesh of his<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
knit through me: pigs, loam, sharp<br />
insect musk<br />
<strong>the</strong>n swept up felt <strong>the</strong> slow pain<br />
of trees, <strong>the</strong> rough grass shrug<br />
strange lovers<br />
sipped me through my watching lips<br />
now sit in fruits <strong>to</strong> fall, seed for swallows<br />
and sky seems a myth of <strong>the</strong> sun<br />
which disappear <strong>to</strong>ge<strong>the</strong>r. I like and dislike<br />
nei<strong>the</strong>r like nor dislike stretched<br />
like time in three ways<br />
now wait in tiny engines turn <strong>the</strong> twines<br />
and fragile pumps. my thoughts far <strong>to</strong>o many<br />
minds <strong>to</strong>o fevered<br />
<strong>to</strong> meld. know much about all but thunder and rush<br />
know but cannot stay <strong>the</strong> knowledge<br />
cannot stay divided<br />
undivided cannot scar with event<br />
can and cannot and nei<strong>the</strong>r can nor cannot<br />
scar event<br />
score my trace my little sounds<br />
I made <strong>the</strong> pact, but with whom? for what?<br />
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