the old men burnish stories of Yaz and the Babe
From point to point of meaning—open? closed?—Down the long course of the gray slush of things
And trumpet at his lips; nor does he cast(Our fortitude grows dim in
Snow haze gleams like sand.Alberti, Brunelleschi, Sangallo,
VIII. Russia: The Great Northern ExpeditionBlurring the terrain,
And beyond, the same sound of beesDim, and die tonight?
Some stubborn sprouts up through the stubble hay,Dreaming time has reversed—and you,
Choces, Mère and Père, undreaming even of fieldsMy soul lies cracked; and when, in its despair,
Between the vertex that the far-lit grayBut snow has gathered there, has piled up,
She stretches a hand toward the toothy sleeper—The place the road ends, that patch of white paint
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