I'd say it's very metallic throughout, Lawrence.
I'd say (& hear) 'a whole' ...?
Bent metal, bent vision?
Doug
On 2013-08-07, at 6:36 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We have a handsomeness of the sartorial kind
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> although the clothing's invisible beyond an unturned collar;
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> a concentrating brow as of one thinking
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> maybe in a quiet place or garden which leads out
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> from itself, and down and round to effect
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> an whole transfiguration look
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> as in side mirrors
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> and produce the suffering face of Christ. One sees,
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> at first, a single eye, and perhaps just
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> one nostril; the mouth
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> a reef in a wide and shallow sea,
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> a separate ear; and then the complement:
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> possession and the looks are gone;
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> all is known as delusion
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