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Rae Armantrout

The Eye

The Eye

The Eye

These brown piles
of stubble

hills

have failed.

They should be more

                       •

It should be difficult
but not impossible

to transmute
latitude

into a thought

a god could
hold.

                       •

Barred light:

dunes coming on
and on.

                       •

The eye, yes,
must move

to prevent
blank spots

from making themselves
known.
Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout

(Verenigde Staten, 1947)

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The Eye

These brown piles
of stubble

hills

have failed.

They should be more

                       •

It should be difficult
but not impossible

to transmute
latitude

into a thought

a god could
hold.

                       •

Barred light:

dunes coming on
and on.

                       •

The eye, yes,
must move

to prevent
blank spots

from making themselves
known.

The Eye

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