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Response to Spenser (2.15.06)

 

Mole-mounds; bird-song,

Emplanted trees in my eyeline converging.

The world is emptied of gods.

 

There are none left to bless this marriage bower;

None but the leaves above my head.

Dark green obliques, piercing proliferation.

 

The world is godless, yet not decreated,

genial sprites of wood and garden banished

by the all-transcendent Word.

After this, I'm not really sure where to go; the following lines are merely scraps of suggestion.

 

Out of the ashes of morning,

there comes a comfort in waiting -

borne down to essence

in the spring's first chill breath.

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