Friday 29 March 2013

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A washing line sways in the breeze,
    Throwing about its worn tassels.

The leafless branches of trees sway
    In sympathetic motion, without

Force, motion with no object, no
    Design : searching as for nothing.

The light of clouds and the light of
    The sun are blent in the ragged

Grass, part held and part refracted
    In windshield and skylight.

The deathliest of noons. Accident
     Does not visit its occasion.

It conceived of no more elaborate
    End than that the cardinals give

Their briefest music from the dark
    Of flowering rhodedendrons.

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