Waldroplz



Rosmarie Waldrop

AN
OBJECTIVE 


 



See
also. The sun’s lance come to rest. The rays to a focus. And speak. Most
children learn to use language. More for security. Since Kerith is long
dry, and the ravens, and the dust of ravens. And the dream ending. 


The
desire for what is perfect. Objectively? Satisfaction’s unlikely, illegible.
Frequently distressed. But language as though. Or thought. More opalescent,
more magical since you gathered mushrooms. Mushrooms while you mayed. 

Inextricably
the direction. Of particulars. Particles? Pulled-glass bottle in the shape
of a fish, miraculous draught. Or refinement of the reverie processes by
which we meet life. And leopards in their spots. The refinement is the
reference to others. Pulled toward, and doubt. 

Thing
or things. Event or chain of events. Bach’s Matthew Passion in Leipzig
and metallurgical plants in Siberia. Or the real fork. Detail of seeing.
Proportional to not easy to separate. If you think how to tell a stranger,
your mental process approaches. The tune’s image holding in the line. 

Thinking
with things as they exist. Winged wild geese. Along a line of melody. Along
the large muscle of the back, which passes from the spine to the head.
Where in the opening of the roof in ancient houses stood the air. Or the
wings of certain insects, iridescent. But in the blood the pale spaces
of verse. Are not seen, but move. 



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