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This is the rather longish poem
I'll be giving a guided tour

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through up tomorrow at, is
it 12:30, Mark, at the--

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at the Student Union, right?

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It's a poem about
writing poetry.

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It's about how I
came to write poetry,

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my own struggle with language.

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And I think it might be
helpful and useful to people

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any age of writing themselves.

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There are few foreign words
in it that I'll just throw out

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translations to-- the word
"nomen" which of course,

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means noun in Latin,
and "mundus nominalis,"

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the word of the noun,
the realm of the noun.

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For years, I had
a writer's block.

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For years, I found that nouns
predominated in my work,

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but the verbs hadn't
come to the forefront,

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hadn't come to
dominate the verses.

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I think it has to.

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Nouns have a tendency
to star, to accumulate,

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they're stations of the static.

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And if left to their own powers,
I found that they stultified,

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they blocked the logical
force of the poem forward.

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It was finally in developing
the verb, and the verb as part

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of process, the verb as
a means of distribution,

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the verb as lyric, I finally
came to my own verse.

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There's a smattering
of Provençal.

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Quouro lis estello
brihon forço means simply

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when the stars are
shining bright.

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There's a smattering of German
from a poem of Hölderlin's that

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was being translated in a little
cave in the rocks by Heidegger

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and a group of
Heideggeran philosophers.

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And there's a little phrase in
Latin toward the end. " Salva,

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salva terram," which means
as I'm sure you know, "Save,

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save the Earth."

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The poem is called "A Portrait
of the Self as Instrument of its

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Syllables."

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And it has a little
epithet at the beginning.

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As when milk is bound
by the juice of the fig,

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from Empedocles.

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And the poem is dedicated
to Robert Duncan.

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Part one.

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It was dark finally,
crossing the Crau

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before the first blossoming
almonds caught in the headlights

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flickering pink from under.

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Cupped flame that frozen
sequence was what I'd hold to:

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the instant looped, bezzled,
set, now into sound.

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The narrow orchards
as they isle, rise,

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the possibility at
least of isolates.

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The hissing of walls,
reeds, windbreaks.

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The running conjugate
of the uninterrupted

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was what brought me first
a bag and briefcase.

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The possibility at least,
of stations, intervals,

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of somewhere with the
numbers might knot,

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and the taut white boulders
in their breath lines eddy.

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Would lie there, the full
length of that murmur.

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Not stillness, said, but the
movement traced, gathered.

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The loose skirts of
the flame in folded.

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Mint and japonica brought
quartz like to focus.

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A where, whereby the fibers
might run refluent into hip,

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ankle, tongue.

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Part two.

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Within the circle
that, hand stamped,

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canceled the square: Lacoste,
fief of oak smoke and iris,

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of moons and nettles,
of the black wind

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pitted cells of its ramparts.

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(What the South wind scooped
and the long mistrals chiseled.)

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There, concentric, at
its quarried heart,

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where the cobbles fork and
hollyhocks stand sentinel,

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went under.

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Where the lamp might root
and the low room glow,

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bright as burst straw--

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brought the broken
swarm of my syllables,

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a pulse beating against a
diaphragm of shadows, a face

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as if poured (so many facets)
into the depth-less mask

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of its hands.

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That it take, that sunken
the damp vocable sprout.

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A here huddled against
the where-less workings

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of a scuttled Earth.

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Bed, bottles, and chairs, that
each thing, as it's uttered out

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of its breath, smoldering, bud.

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But didn't, wouldn't.

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For 10 years, the rocks
wandered, wouldn't stop:

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the shelled meadows nor the
knuckled trunks of the stump

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sycamores.

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Drifted Pisces and Equuleus.

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Unbound, unthreaded from
the slender wefts of syntax,

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floated Sagitta, ashen.

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Slipped, what could trace the
weight of its own fingers.

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Bring the meager egg of echo--

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its stray body's-- to bear.

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For 10 years, reigned
nomen, preponderant.

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Wouldn't fit, lay
broken, the phrase,

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in its meted progressions.

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Split, severed, what
the verb had woven.

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A wave through its slack waters
shot by its troughed rhythms,

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driven.

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Adrift now in so many
spent components.

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In nomen, the mundus nominalis,
each thing onto itself invested.

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Each its sole and
inflexible referent.

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Like unto like,
the limbs unmixed.

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That vision
Empedoclean, the fusion

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of the elements
under strife, riven.

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Shadows lapping against chalk.

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For 10 years, the
breath went dismembered.

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Erred bone, erred measure.

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Through the nomen in
its cellulated wastes

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the poem moved,
disassembled, unspoken.

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Part 3.

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Hung there, a damp bulb, a plump
fire from underneath the tangled

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coils of her hair.

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Whorled taut, each
brittle inflammated node,

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to a flushed bud, each knot.

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Then slack relapsing again,
a loose effusion, a heat,

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run undulant through its
rhythmic lymph rippled grain.

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Rung, and rung to that
that draws and involves me;

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pulls, centripetal,
from shank and tongue.

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Urges its glowing,
unsustainable image.

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Its imprint in me through
that narrow draft,

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tendon of my own annunciations.

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Brings thus each
word to resonance,

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each breath to reception,
leads the least increment

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into that tissue, that
globed air, that begets.

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Brings thus the poem
forwards of which

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I am merely its instance,
prefix for setting substance

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to syllable, for bringing
the unworked images,

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damp bulb, plump fire, forwards
into their linked and sonorous

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betrothals.

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For the words wed as they weave.

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Lithe, the morphemes couple, as
the self un-selves, and sends

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its eye moving, deft,
through mineral; its breath,

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meshed, through pine.

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Mixes flame, flower, and water,
eschews stasis, abets rhyme,

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binds the goat's milk fast
to the fig's thick juices.

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Not stillness, said, but the
movement, traced, gathered.

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But sphairos, the Earth bound,
taut, to its paired releases.

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Part 4, which
deals with reading.

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Reading first, landscape,
and then reading text.

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Over Goult, with lavender
farms, and lizards

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through the dry thyme sizzle,
read rocks, read walls,

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saw interstice manifest.

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Followed the low
overlapping play

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of the stones, their
adjusted intervals.

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Past Les Maquignons, clustered
in its crumbling rust

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red ochres, entered
the trellised air,

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the wind scored orchards.

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Not cadence, had said, the fixed
fall of its quartered staves,

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but the wire drawn,
the lines run

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rhythmic to the folds
of the broken ground,

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pliant to the
Earth's undulant lay.

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Not form, then, but form
as extension of content,

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but gestaltung, each
wave in its throe,

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the gaudy heave of its countless
facets, a fresh annunciate.

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Nights, would read, quouro
lis estello brihon forço.

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Within the tall, lime washed
rooms of that abandoned,

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dry stone cocoonery, read Blake,
read Char, my first masters.

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The flames rose in fat needles
through the lamps' glass

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sleeves.

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With the least breeze, the
slack shadows throbbed.

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Read Sappho and Pindar, Anacreon
and Catullus, came birds,

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came reeds.

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Out of Isaiah sprang
summer, Parmenides, night.

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From Dante, that ore, that ben
intellecto, and Ibn ' Arabī,

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those suspended, reciprocal
stars, came winds, salt,

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marrows.

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For the lines, as they
run transparent into dawn,

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into light, bring
to each substance

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its qualities, each reflection
its light, proffer their mettle,

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both temper and refine.

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Came thus the rivers, came fish
and the rain-shaken lilies.

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From the T'ang, the moons,
and the Sung, mirrors.

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From Mallarmé that
rush of crushed shadow,

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and Shakespeare that pearl, its
black sphericity, came thunder,

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came tin.

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From Traherne, the psalm,
burnt to a glass whisper,

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from Hopkins, the
bow, and Wordsworth,

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verdurous, the quiver.

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For the lines as they
come now unwritten,

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as they run, pellucid, into
world, infuse, instill,

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the syllables fill.

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From Williams, thus, so many
wind-petaled wildflowers,

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while from Duncan, air, that
ayre exultant, and Oppen,

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unrelenting, that
wheel maker's flame.

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From the linguists,
now, Whorf, Sapir,

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how the least shift in
syntax, tense, perception

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would reset the
heavens, bring a boulder

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to tremble in the wrapt
tissues of a breath,

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would bring us uncentered now
onto those very first fields,

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those released phrases
of dust and dragonflies,

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adjunctive now to that
deeper space, unto

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that far heart, a people,
crepuscular, who point.

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And the last part, subtitled,
"The Translation of the Waves."

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That air not end,
nor flame gutter,

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that Earth not coil, ingested,
into those nounal hoards,

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but verb herded, be given,
offered forth, wind unto

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wind, foam unto foam,
be pitched sonorous

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through each meted
particle, transmitted.

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For certainly, to own is to
interrupt, to stock, pile,

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separate matter from its own
innate motion, its thrust unto,

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to truncate and kill.

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Was what brought me,
then, a blue shadow

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moving against the
glass-headed light,

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a mumble across
the pruned luminous

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oblongs of the
terraced orchards,

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up over Venasque, where asters
float to the fields' very edges,

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climbed.

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Lavender, olive, quince
in laddered octaves,

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came at last to those
waves in the rocks,

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that cave with the waves hung
from the poem's high scaffolds.

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Eine Pracht-- that splendor--

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das Werk der Wogen. Where
all morning they'd amassed,

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lay gathered towards their
own translation, abeyant

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upon the brief: schlägt es:
the sea in Hölderlin's poem

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all morning, pendant.

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Of the way, the various
ways, angles, tensions,

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the waves might break,
fan against the coastline,

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foaming, Fédier and Beaufret,
all morning, tested predicates.

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Heidegger withdrawn, opaque,
a block of dark crystal,

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its rays bent inwards,
elucidated the verb alone:

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its clipped, arrested movement.

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The back of his hand slapped
flatly at the dry shadows.

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Eine Pracht all
morning, that splendor,

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that cave, no certainly
not Plato's, where

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the waves in their great
watery greenhouses accumulated:

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a waited transition,
in their high,

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fluttering aviaries,
their transit,

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as if in that
vocable, all Europe,

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all air that long morning
were held suspended,

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as if finally in the
blue involuted wheel

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of that verb transfigurant
in all verbs, all mornings

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finally, the breath would slip
accelerating towards passage.

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Wave unto wave, surf
bursting against shore,

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each thing unto its deep
imbedded mirrors projected

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unto the running parallel,
its referent deferred,

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that thus returned
unto the inviolate,

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at last restored, each thing
might in its turn regenerate.

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Out of that lost language,
that buried resonance,

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might bud, spring fresh that
twofold, the Earth be by breath

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alone its own
recourse, both store

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and sow, receive and
diffuse, articulate

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its reciprocal spaces,
that it break thus

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from that ultimate hypnosis,
the ultimate Gorgon's

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white monodic gaze,
from its gases be saved,

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from that flash and its
instantaneous white fires:

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salva, salva terram was what
the waves sang, sang save, save,

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what the bells off the tops
of the tall waves beat,

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flung backwards in hard
tokens, fat hammered froth.

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What brought me, then,
over the low ledges,

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brought that I bring,
impelled that I urge, herd,

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drive the words into
that luminous salvage

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and stand there in those
linked shadows, thus lit?

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