from Sprout Near Severing Close
10.
How the forest smacks
now I never see the noose of cut
without a lessened forest
round its head!
Left to vice of upturn
at the clinch of last cutting.
Tamed if busily maimed layer:
unguttedly so refocal a scout of shear.
A round of nature
filling small opens in the woods
with what has refallen
diminished upright.
Sembles the upward
with no amplitude
behindwood.
Pine-shadowed but unclad,
the stain the clearing offers if it is in
caseless seedless sprout of.
from What the Surfaces Enclave
of Wang Wei
1.
Water-flowers duplicates hardy
at stillness. And then through
greens of oak and pine
we may dispose a way home.
Only the stream follows it
drowned to the world.
Brash under pine retains
ranks in dust of the sown.
If the valley is empty
few come home to the cold,
preferring refuge at the rim.
Bruise the distance from city walls,
all you will see make hills of.
Remote barrage is hills
round my door, past
its mouth to the tall trees.
from Rings Resting the Circuit
1.
That the ring lights crevice
sits to exposure in round face:
opens alignment a rind
at trait of bind.
Nakeder entrance as disk reels
hollow off, a plenty the emptied drum
hears on surface, as situate
gone out: outbrow within what is
siltless round rim.
Open barrier swirl
stars by rotary obstruct
without queueing the curvate spot, all
oval
since slides the soil.
An opening you did not
transect, sufficiency
to eject is by
one detentive particle:
hollow versal in rounds
silent, unsalient
with verge, rung
the clearing bar to put
curves past
blocks of sieve.
It circles the unpassing a ring is not
roof of:
is lain rootless punct-
ure go through vertical,
lance it pore –
off impervious plain.
Not weaker a
not freed across over-
lyings, rescind to this
hollow due: least attached the
hold does owe it eye. Un-
riven resting
the deadspin through.
All poems copyright Peter Larkin, 2004.
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