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(Not Cretan, Vandal, Philistine, Osmanlis the slave
warriors, Mamluk, Goth
but Aramaic from stone and clay, and into Persia
Cyrus, son of Cyro, meaning bitch's son
Hebraic
from ash rising into Palestine within living
memory,
within living memory
and
there was set a tower above all else
but
it was here that vision
as from out the crescent, the weal, the gaol
as hunger is not ironic, not death, not history
as to land hobbled, even the sun
as horn, snowflight, retreat, night is an ear
as at the foot of the sea-brink
as fire, catheter, maiden, damselfly,
as that the earth is beneath the root
as meadow's smell, clouds move through me
as the red-tailed hawk on the 77th mile marker
as again I think of your body, the border, the dark
as the night is an ear, an error just so
as in carillon, caracole, viraga, virga
as the countryside, heavy rains, oversleeping
as from the beginning to the beginning
as it is we who do not need Vulcan and Aphrodite
who needed only heaven and earth)
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