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"In a Time of Scanty Resources."

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"At the foot of the
mountain, the lake,

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at spontaneous affection
the transitory,

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at the cloud height, the gull,
at the water's break, the ruin,

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at the ruin, the end, at the
end, the light of eternity.

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Two figures supposing
but huddled next

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to the roar of snow wash,
boulders gray in the distance

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and gray and cold so near.

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Upward they see
five hawks circling

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and for a moment
an octagonal tower

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and a sudden terrace or roof
deck gold at the end of day.

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Their conversation in this
wild remains cylindrical

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and unmoving a building
in winter exactly square.

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Precisely unreachable from
any side on a grassy plinth,

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the edifice disguised
as idyllic love

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wears its double banded
cornice as a crown.

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Lying to either
side of the grass,

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the gravel edges the exterior
wall and borders the graves.

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A soaring entry canopy
pierces the church

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as a relief of molded glass.

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The worshippers on tour are
led through the vestibule

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and the bay across
acres of geometric tile.

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This fortified box with its
air well like a threshold

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with its eaves as songbirds
peeling upward in a parapet.

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Looking skyward
through folded planes,

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the funnel effect
like a flirt all

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conjured to convince
us of the structures

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mystery or its makers power.

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What demons pursue us,
what hauntings we trail,

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what blessings we
produce for one

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another here will be recorded
for the heartsong and the tear.

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The valley at the edge of the
notebook, the seamless water,

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its crab, and whale.

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In a time of scanty
resources, the myth of plenty

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mocks the rubber sandals
held over a second summer.

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I turned from my companion
and more fallen each time

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ran tumbling along the
sea rocks and coal.

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Regret, a solid bed, my voice
and tongue creeping from me

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like a snake among the tombs.

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At 4:50 in the afternoon, olive
trees twist in benevolence.

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Friends who have not been
friends dying on a honey

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glazed patio before
an enormous fire.

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The pounding heart,
the drooping mouth,

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the eyelid wrinkled in a place
neither wet nor dry singular

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nor plural.

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In every instance of calamity,
forgiveness is in the hands.

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At the crossroads,
the accused are either

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gathered in a solemn mass
or allowed into a clearing.

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A cruel mid-autumnal
rotunda, a place

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to reconnoiter the
death and the dawn

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of it, the fish and the
fowl, the fool and the fair,

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all that lies in the history
of your heart equally real."

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