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turn *
while in your turning
become * as One . . . as Another
to my meek behest : as * ages * as
to purify
or profligate this deep
wine * in its incense delicate . . . a jewel
in reeds : we will lay them down
here as a light which
in * your image
lives . . .
this pale wall this
wing * which turning marks
its dervish devil-arc . . . as the sun
is * my beginning * is
my debt
to Time : agèd counter
-point . . . while the birds fly up
-wards * leaving their soulless
shadows here * to search
some other sense : some
other * clutch to
calcified core :
some other *
brilliant
blue