Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Wondrous Words

  

Indian Stream Republic
by Stephen Burt



No one should be this alone--
none of the pines
in their prepotent verticals,

  1: exhibiting genetic prepotency : dominant. 


The legerdemain of the noon sun through needles and leaves,
revealing almost nothing, falls across

2.A show of skill

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