The aftertaste of beauty is anxiety.
\nThe foretaste of history is prediction
\nas if the tongues had been written on.
\nI had been doing the ironies
\ntill they were flat and unwrinkled,
\nthe cuffs standing sharp and the pleats
\nand the blastula beginning with a dimple.
\nThe background of Longinus was time.
\nThe preface on paper was illusion.
\nIn this the figures of the fixed wings
\ntook on the pressed faces of threats and promises,
\nPeregrinus naming the poles of a loadstone,
\nthe brass of the locks bitter but secure.<\/p>\n
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There is no coincidence
\neven quirks that become tradition
\nare rain practicing rivers on the glass
\nHistory is all antecedents
\nShowing how once upon a time persists
\nis a pleasant fiction with variations
\nchorus as footnotes coconuts
\nstarting new islands on plain paper
\nfolded to a boat and set adrift<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If you\u2019d just change the accented syllable
\nto the second we\u2019d all feel better
\nBlood in its lessened pressure included
\nIt would bring back the creek
\nwhere we\u2019d ride past the plaster pig
\nin a suit to see the gathering tadpoles
\nredstarts starting red into the underbrush
\nand stingrays would come to the divers
\nentangled in drift nets and rusted hooks
\nto be blissfully relieved<\/p>\n
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