Thanks Doug & Rebecca. I'm trying to remind myself that I actually enjoy
this poetry stuff by turning out these things. Keeps the ear and brain
tuned.
That said, now you've brought me on you, here's another. I've elided very
specific and somewhat obscure Chinese mythological references, but tried to
retain the (generally agreed) sense with less specific analogues.
Best,
T
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Seriatim
phoenix rise,
flapping vast wings
to test
the limits
of cosmography.
Quick tilt
of pinion:
see them ride
the jet-stream
and obliterate
space.
They break their fast
on windfalls
of eternity
and sup
exalted
outside time.
Should these
who haunt the blue
fear nets?
Should such
consort
with primitives,
disclosing,
old
vacuities,
trading
coarse
tags?
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