Children of Men

28Feb07

She sends a picture of them before the ruins, and the sudden scent
of Cumberland Island and an earthy desolation ascends, and time folds.
The world with a great desperation and violence becomes chaos,
becomes senseless laws and murders, becomes televised laughter,
becomes a riding mower, becomes an Escalade, becomes Sunday service,
a snake swallowing its tail, a gagging forward.
Can [...]

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Earthshine

15Feb07

Considering the moon’s dark face dimly lit by earthshine,
the light of the ancient governors processing through the zodiac
(the light of the deliberate planets) reaches us!
They, throughout time, have been impartial to right and wrong,
as an eye is impartial to the spectrum of visible light
Considering the light we see
as reflected many times, throughout time in many [...]

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