Aurora
My continuing presence on this stage has abruptly become an open matter—
would I be able to raise the horrors the assurances another spectacle
a solitary syllable
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MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM ET FASCINANS
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Blessed rest then comes without blame or shame for my ineptitude
all energies and injuries flow out of my fingers now into the crowd and on
through the sea of night
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This current silence will be observed by the chorus
of crickets and bullfrogs
the monologue may resume after peacock screams
N-O-O-OW N-o-o-ow N-o-o-ow
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In the dressing mirror over my shoulder a tripled brightness
shows a sudden sure structure to the hidden eye
spider belays from the shutter
down to the windowsill
I see neighbor is up to catch some light in his glass beads
sister has convincingly patterned a new alphabet for coming purposes
dear star-brother works
his grape-wood stack into liturgical shapes
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Stepping through the archways of the East She returns
brine scented draped in April and wild lilac
with warblers and vireos woodpeckers thumping she speaks
Love at any cost You are free to explore
Make yourself a little something
for breakfast
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My audience has drifted off to sleep who didn't disappear with the animal voices
something out of place
this purple costume perhaps the eggshell mask
the jewel in the Ethiop's ear her elliptical
glances
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