Bigrammatology - I
the chill ascends from feet to knees, the formal word precise but
not pedantic, the death of
water and dead
sand contending for the
roses had the look of some
dead master whom
i had known, because not
looked for but heard, half-heard, in another pattern, and
the rest is
prayer, observance, discipline,
thought and action. fare
forward, you can hear the
music lasts. these are only
undeceived of that which was the
beginning, every poem an epitaph. and so, compliant to
the earth which is
not pedantic, the death of
water and dead
sand contending for the
roses had the look of some
dead master whom
i had known, because not
looked for but heard, half-heard, in another pattern, and
the rest is
prayer, observance, discipline,
thought and action. fare
forward, you can hear the
music lasts. these are only
undeceived of that which was the
beginning, every poem an epitaph. and so, compliant to
the earth which is
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