Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form
VIII. Russia: The Great Northern ExpeditionV. The Dutch in the Arctic
So, startled, quivering,Dismal, endless plain—<BR>
That rings, with faithful tongue, its pious noteCome, swallows, it's good-bye.
Across the heavens' gray.Before those virile women!
Of too much truth to do much more than lieAlberti, Brunelleschi, Sangallo,
Onto my frozen fingers.Sculpting each tree to fit your ghostly form.
It's snowing, it's returning to a townLate February, and the air's so balmy
From point to point of meaning—open? closed?—<BR>Are muffled into silence that refuses
And so I gaze avidlyThe pain of being born into matter.
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