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That This

Susan Howe

February 25, 2009

That this book is a history of a shadow that is a shadow of

me mystically one in another Another another to subserve __

Day is a type when visible objects change then put

on form but the anti-type That thing not shadowed __

Is light anything like this stray pencil commonplace

copy as to one aberrant onward-gliding mystery __

A secular arrietta variation Grass angels perish in this

harmonic collision because non-being cannot be “this” __

Not spirit not space finite Not infinite to those fixed–

That this millstone as such Quiet which side on which– __

That a solitary person bears witness to law in the ark to

an altar of snow and every age or century for a day is __

Is one mind put into another in us unknown to ourselves by going about among trees and fields in moonlight or in a garden to ease distance to fetch home spiritual things __

Susan HoweSusan Howe is an American poet and critic.


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