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[But isn't midnight intermittent]

But isn't midnight intermittent
Or was that just a whispered nine
A snap of blown light low against the flank of a cow
A likeness of something numberless that only I not knowing the sound
            might know
It may have been howled by a circling dog being chastised — threatened —
            by multiples of itself in pursuit of the consolation of knowing that
            everything is real

Lyn Hejinian at Academy of American Poets

Lyn Hejenian at Electronic Poetry Center

Lyn Hejenian at PennSound (audio)


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