The poem marks
a watery realm
a tri via, shaken and disturbed
the poem marks
a de termini for the poet.
The poem is a kind of boundary
marker; the poem is where the
gods came and went
The poem is what the gods left
The poem is where
aesthetic mythoi
in form, an image
dissolves back and in
a transpersonal past
dimension of experience
transcendant ground
soil of Ge
the poem
re
livens the story
of itself
in the gods
The poem is where
images reform
themselves
forward
into personality
and person
a poem changes
the matter
in the
matter
The poem
is a story
a legein
like the one
imbedded in
the peplos of
Athene
The poem is
golden and gold
is the tool
in the skin
and hide of
Hephaistos
The poem
returns gold
The poem is
a woman
changing her cloth
her peplos
her closure
changing woman
herself
the poem reforms beauty
where beauty herself passes
between aesthetic expression
and transpersonal arrest; since
not all beauty is beautiful
in the aegis
the poem marks
this de termini
for the poet;
beauty in being
no
thingbe-ing the one property
of all things; the poem
weaves and
what is not beautiful
that disturbs identity
is reunited and
reabsorbed back
into what is
—beautiful!
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