Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.
There's noise and laughter. Somebody
mentions that hearing is silver
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To learn what to say to unlearn
The order of islands here
The number of fingers
made from ideas
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At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then
it goes back into my throat drying my throat.
Miracle of Sicilian weeping. Bleeds in one of his many
dreams.
...
You can say the broken word but cannot speak
for it, can name a precise and particular shade
of blue if you can remember its name
(Woman of the South, New Lilac, Second Sky?)
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I asked the Master of Shadows
wherefore and wherefrom
but he said that art was short
and life was long
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This is a glove
or a book from a book club
This is the sun
or a layer of mud
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In the hole we found beside the road
something would eventually go
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"I said darkling and you said sparkling"
The play-house appears before us
as a real house in the dark
filled with people cut out
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But we have painted over the chalky folds,
the snow- and smoke-folds, so carefully,
so deftly that many (Did you bet
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