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Introducción:
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In the middle of my room
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By winter glass lit and dappled
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I sat till passions had passed
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I, coronate I, insouciant
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As the freeze over the land
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And well-content
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But something came and knocked the pane
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Set rushing my raptureless blood
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I stepped outdoors to find my course
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Made sweet with the sun and mud
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So, what is this that skips and reels?
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A tumbling flag, come torn from its stake
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Again, now to tremble against the ground
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And shake the heart awake
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And who is this, with beads so blue
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Who walks where the seed is outbroken and grown
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Full as a furnace and soft as a star
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Like none I&rsquo ve ever known?
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And through me it rose up, enkindled, a bolt through the dark:
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My heart, leaping crazy, as, begging, you sang through the park
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And praised the ghosts of radio who taught you how to go in disguise
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To murmur as if purposeful with artful streaks of dirt around your eyes
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Saw you rise
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Above the lagging breakers of the lake behind
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Like a pillar hung with heather and with eglantine
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Oh, my radiant, oh, resplendent tower
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Risen up among the beasts at the feasting hour
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And when I rose, I rose to you
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And when we lay down, how the floodwaters rolled
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And clutched at my tattered, insufferable heart
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Made riotous and bold
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I learned, in turn, to dip and wheel
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A gull in the tempest, to eddy and fall
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Against so vast a sky as yours
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Engulfed, and oh, so small
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And I recall:
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How you pried it open, the old plastron cradling my soul
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How you stripped me clear down to my waist
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And, after my hatching, your turntable scratching
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A languid tango all over the place
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How, mostly uncovered, remembering the others &mdash
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A flame on the finger, a beak in the eye &mdash
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I thrashed till the morning. Like robins soaring away over corn
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Went we, weary, but wise
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(Wildness in your wild mind
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And I stuck by your side, playing mute and blind
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Didn&rsquo t you seek? And didn&rsquo t you find?)
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Dawn-struck and grinning (but quiet) we moved in the kitchen &mdash
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Despite our condition, un-slowed &mdash
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And stashed packs of matches away in my autumn&rsquo s-blood jacket
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For later, out there on the road
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We drove through the country like specters &mdash
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My sweet resurrector, the pillows, the pill box, and I &mdash
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In a waltz across fault-lines, spilling forth joyful
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Like bees swarming up to the curve of the sky
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I would this body, dense with dust
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Would turn as clear as sky:
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You&rsquo d see I love you as I must
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And need no longer any trust
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Nor fear for any lie
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More bright than the bright silent summer moon &mdash
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More long than the long scarlet contour of Mars &mdash
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Aren&rsquo t you my only one?
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No love was there ever like ours
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The silver chain will brown with rust
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The hound lie down to die
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Till orange blooms in gorgeous lust
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Have broken from the frozen crust
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Of ashen months passed by
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On that cold, yellow hillside, got warm on the inside
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The fog of our breath gone stretching like smoke to the cloud
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Then you took me out walking away from the squawk
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Of the rubber, the rod, and the spoke
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To find in the pasture a picket of ash
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Standing sunk and alone in the blue of the gley
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And that&rsquo s where you faced me, saying Oh, baby
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This is the way, oh, this is the way
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(Waning white in the blue light of dawn
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So sure that when you die you won&rsquo t be gone
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Aren&rsquo t I a child for holding on?)
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Straw sticking out from my wrists, I shuddered and twisted
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And hung o&rsquo er our lambent domain
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Ghastly and bloodless &mdash and yet, so in love
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So pathetic and grasping. At last, you explain
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(pin-piercé d as there were a raven fierce ravening your bones)
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That you (you alone) will be born by the flame
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Enkindled completely, commorient, and sweetly, in mutual mourning
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The king I became
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How dark blew the dust that she danced on with horseshoes and thorns!
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To think on the smallest or largest is more than we are formed for
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As reapers throng to see the phantom&rsquo s form, she opens wide her newborn eyes
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And still she sees the shorebird standing still, and still she stands inside the tide
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And slender limbs still quiver on the breeze where she has blossomed back to life
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Who died to be the soil and decay? Who died to be the seed and rise?
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And still the earth returns, in fruit and chaparral and ferns, the suicides:
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How they shine! how they shine! how they shine!
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Your interminable birth out of earth, out of sun
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Sends you searching for your ghost, half-asleep, on the run
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You, the wandering star that I tumble around
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Till the contents of my clothes are returned to the ground