Thursday, September 06, 2007

8t6rek

II. List of Franklin Search Parties
XVII. Greenland
By trees—or might see as the masonry
The edge of that other square cut from the right
This perfection, this absence.
Away from their profundity of surface.
To have been claimed by what we see of what
Escapees from the cold work of living,
At four, the spectators leave in pairs, off
Seems reflected in the infinite of the lamps.
The winter road from the St. Simeon farm
snoozing. A schoolgirl on vacation gapes,
A rabbit carcass in its stiffened fur.
Point, after all, when finally one reaches
into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard
To a higher level of appearance.
—Now that you notice it—have just moved past
Wind, sleet. The branches sway,
XIV. Franz Josef Land: The Amazing Drift of the Tegetthoff

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