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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6. LONG WAIT<br />
long weight<br />
grey weight<br />
long far mountain<strong>to</strong>p<br />
lone blue mountain<strong>to</strong>p<br />
<strong>the</strong>se red doves<br />
this cardinal igniting <strong>the</strong> sycamores<br />
this crow brandy<br />
formless ache of snow in pass<br />
<strong>the</strong> formulation of longing<br />
as<br />
fidelity, constraint<br />
renegade sun tilting<br />
at slow-looping days<br />
<strong>the</strong> force of it, pressing from behind, <strong>the</strong> lancet<br />
rasping <strong>the</strong> mind’s garret <strong>the</strong> snowpack rolled<br />
over familiar hollows like a shroud<br />
a long far memory is <strong>the</strong> sum of memory<br />
frost heaving inside, leviathan<br />
pushing out this crumple, that inanity<br />
do you dream of being, asked <strong>the</strong> nightbirds<br />
asked <strong>the</strong> night<br />
this ache, empty nest<br />
<strong>the</strong> pushing, forewinning,<br />
<strong>the</strong> memory coiling <strong>to</strong> seize, throw self out of myself<br />
in<strong>to</strong> green abysses<br />
leaving possession of nothing<br />
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