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Where
we've come to
by no other way
____
the red stone sleeps
from hand to hand
____
look up
that unflawed
____
steadiness-
____
your hive of
signals
entering-
____
the other wheels
dream a little
wing-work
levers, cogs,
transparent leaps
& bridges
netted up
across the
purpose
bending now
____
the good
____
thought weighing in,
the structure under it
____
a different
power
____
good (as on 13.i.'98)
devoted to it-
____
kindness
____
then you know
it will be longer-
____
to be wrought
____
O western
fear
____
new votes
the long lines
counted
____
through
(as in we're through),
____
afraid
of my own actions
____
doubled
(dusk)
____
pursuing,
laying hold.
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