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.