“On the map it is precise and rectilinear as a chessboard
[…]
though here and there a weathered post asserts a former claim
[…]
What grows in that place is possessed of a beauty all its own, ramshackle and unexpected”
Category: landscape
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AG2023_1130603a or unkept by the present tense
“… Unkept
By the present tense, I was distant
In my watching,
An existence I too tendered stagily
As free.
[…]
the flowing virtue
Of verdant surfaces”
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spaces where feelings are held
What must be valued
I’m learning,in clarity and in error,
are spaceswhere
feelings are held.Here—in a poem?
And elsewhere(JJ)
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A clear day in Antigua Guatemala or breathe benevolent notes, their particular legibility
We surrender in the teeming utterance
of materials soaked with sentences already made in air
To disappear into the right words
and to be their meanings. . .
radiant points, scales and
variations of beads and dots
breathe benevolent notes, their
particular legibility of trackless
Resistance …
