AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

cycle, papyrus injunctions, whathaveyou.
It keeps spinning our heads.
No motion but the wax
and wink of a kind of alpenglow passed
from gem to thoughtless gem
7.
ink-dots on the infinite scroll
of the cave
and the dim thing hanging
thousands of years later, it
emits a cheeping,
its miserable half-cheep to itself
cloaked in its own cast-up guano
then is forever quiet,
a regular dot once more
and the sweet flutter of night
on night
8.
Myrmecophilous light
like a dumb kid comes
every new day to poke
its face in our tunnels
is taken hostage with tissues
but mostly gets away, back
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