Mending the Bowl: the Plot in us
I don’t know whether the blueprint
pushes the action ahead or follows it,
but I have often composed with diagrams.
The hollowed stone
gives us the hallowed tone
of the dying god’s vows
that sing a small sun song
of light reflecting in
an open field pocked
with bomb craters
where the old and tired
Lock Picker fishes
watching the kayaks play
in the rapids
of the Great River Nile.
King of Spades - Robert Duncan
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