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

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4. THE TRUTH<br />

A harpy dismantled<br />

four legionnaires twisting<br />

<strong>the</strong> nightpaths like twines<br />

moon leaking its rust<br />

in slag ponds<br />

swarmed by black beavers<br />

what brutal fraction<br />

excited <strong>the</strong> sycophants<br />

<strong>to</strong> this<br />

how turbid <strong>the</strong> timbers<br />

falling slow and uns<strong>to</strong>ppably as dawn<br />

while cisalpine men shiver<br />

while a druid sops bloodfall<br />

small motions animate<br />

each avalance<br />

<strong>the</strong> mare tails subvect<br />

white scars <strong>the</strong> elephant eyes<br />

long forks short cuts<br />

<strong>the</strong> patina of lightning<br />

occupying <strong>the</strong> retina<br />

a bee-purple blizzard<br />

what women what fruit<br />

what secondary objective<br />

gonadotropic <strong>the</strong> cabinet<br />

brokers living wills<br />

a zip line unthreads<br />

fields proffer more broken skeet<br />

martial mosaics clutter<br />

<strong>the</strong> hapless synaptic gap<br />

darker resis<strong>to</strong>rs<br />

spill over <strong>the</strong> byways<br />

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