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"Matters of Will."

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"A child lifts a bell with
one hand and with the other,

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leads a beast as
unpredictable as a minotaur.

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The light principle is within--

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in evidence, the
child's iridescent skin.

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The minotaur, mangy and
cruel, stands upright,

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and proves genitals to throat
that the dark principal is

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without.

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In the hermitage, in
the continuous present,

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high tide brings
a sea lion ashore.

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A sparrow needles at
the wings of the gull.

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In its way, the day itself
brings on the preponderance

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of the small.

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Some participants maintain
one attains significance

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by napping at the
base of the stones.

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Our warrior with the bell
fixes his eyes more closely

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on duty than the
ordinary citizen.

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A whole life takes
a shorter time

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than the trees
pushing up the hill.

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Beast in check, snout to fin,
he determines for himself

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what his duty is.

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Through the crack of
the door, songbirds,

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then the familiar confusion
between the nightingale

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and the lark.

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Before her lover flees, she
places an outstretched arm,

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and then her entire
torso into the breach.

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Echoes of troubadours devoted
to the codes of love and alchemy

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of musty sheets, the scramble
for a few minutes of a spring

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night, the overfunding
of an expedition

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to insert the mirror
as far as it will go,

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the body of the beloved
lit as an entire pavilion.

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In the estuary, egrets
vie for the sweet grass

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designated for the horses.

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All love is forbidden love.

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All love loves a watershed.

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The leaves of the quaking
Aspen, stampede of dust

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muting the last of
the summer's olives,

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he rode a horse so swift
it left no footprints.

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Under him, she would
lift her face to the sky.

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Near a field of sweeping
fire, voices called,

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what might be that
was, what could

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have been that was because they
laid their eggs in the corpse

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of her soldier, the story goes.

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She welcomed the aphids
to winter in her heart.

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What it takes to
move the body forward

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is called unworldly
decisiveness.

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The fate of fire
depends on fuel.

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If there is wood below,
fire burns above.

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Already a ghost kneeling
beside the lake,

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he offers the lily
in his right hand

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to be able to do what
his orders demand."