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light at equinox - léonie adams lyrics

a realm is here of masquing light
when struck rent wood and cornland by
the belled heaven claps the ground
husk, seed, pale straw, pale ear the year reposes
and a thinned frieze of earth rims round
the whey*gleamed wet*ash*dimming sky
and whole trodden floor of light
where that slant limb winds with its shadowing closes
distant as l*strally the sun
within that pearl of nimble play
where traverse with rehearsing tread
orients of prime to their all*reaping west
strangered from every grave glissade
of blue enduskings or of milky day
and wan, his silver nimbus on
muses his burning sojourn unprofessed
past barks mouse*sleek, wattled as serpent skin
rare acorn fall, rare squirrel flash
beyond, and in a silenced scene
the wren, gamin wanderer of immense day
can with luxuriant bendings preen
or in his pebble*scoopings plash
to alarmless eden flown
and suddenly, for nothing, flies away
and all are sole in the estranging day;
forms of all things their candour wear
like the undefending dead
and forth from out that mortal stricture gaze
of unperspective radiance shed
through everywhere horizoned air
tasking precising love to say
for its dense words, the azuring periphrase
to her own brink light glides, intent
an unsphering sense to bind
by narrowing measures in
sidelong as then up branching march she bade
stiff buds into the glancing skein
and the green reel unwind;
now toward another pole she’s leant
and netherwards for partner draws her shade

- leonie adams lyrics

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