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Clamor at ecstasy.

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But ecstasy sings
the blank space

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on the pages between each
word is [INAUDIBLE] exquisite,

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when spoken true.

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First, I learned to forget how
the clouds billowing into storm

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took other shapes, the thunder
head as the sparrow's wing,

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the tulip wilting, the
toad with bulbous eyes,

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and see only the cloud itself.

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Noted in my journal how the
wind and upper atmosphere

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can bend a wisp into a circle.

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Noted the spring congest into
storms, the clouds progressing

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by circular up-swellings
as if a liquid boiling,

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and the under edge of each node,
a darker gray limbed in blue,

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the shadow by which the
cloud grows in definition.

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Exquisite when spoken, each
word rings with one note.

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Orion plucks on
his shimmering bow,

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vibrates also in
the bow of the pine,

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and the worm which feasts
on the pine, as it grows.

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Then forgot the words
to the clear tone.

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Then forgot to speak.

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Then my blood vibrated with
the working of the tree.

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Then a book was leaves
on water spread out,

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so the water couldn't be seen.

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Then ecstasy rippled.

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Then the stars
were on the water.

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Then I looked up.

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Then I forgot the
constellations, Orion, Hydra,

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Dipper, Bear, and only
saw the light piercing

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through the dark.

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Then I had no story
but this poem.

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All I can say is that I live and
breathe and have my thoughts.

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We are the still Earth, a dark
toad in the mouth of a snake,

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and the snake's mouth
upon us is light.

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