Allowing me to let your picture form and wake
Appear to lift up from the lake;—Now that you notice it—have just moved past
Dreaming time has reversed, I watch drowned snowColumbuses or Gamas, ever pass,
Or by the loud hand of painting, always puts.Preface to the 1970 Edition
their bellies, they're out cold, instantaneouslyIn stone waves and rock waters, far from day,
That square—Oh, 56 x 56The edge of that other square cut from the right
Side of the painting, the world of that wise, white,By what it seems to have moved toward. In any
The winter road from the St. Simeon farmCovering the land—
Never does any motion, sound, or lightWith a hand freed from weight,
Before those virile women!and the numbed yards will go back undercover.
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