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The autumn shade is thin Grey leaves lie faint	B
Where they will lie and where the thick green was	C
Light stands up like a presence to the sky	D
The trees seem merely shadows of its age	E
From off the hill I hear the logging crew	F
The furious and indifferent saw the slow	G
Response of heavy pine and I recall	H
That goddesses have died when their trees died	I
Often in summer drinking from the spring	J
I sensed in its cool breath and in its voice	K
A living form darker than any shade	L
And without feature passionate yet chill	M
With lust to fix in ice the buoyant rim	N
Ancient of days the mother of us all	H
Now toward his destined passion there the strong	O
Vivid young man reluctant may return	P
From suffering in his own experience	Q
To lie down in the darkness In this time	R
I stay in doors I do my work I sleep	S
Each morning when I wake I assent to wake	T
The shadow of my fist moves on this page	E
Though even now in the wood beneath a bank	U
Coiled in the leaves and cooling rocks the snake	T
Does as it must and sinks into the cold	V
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Nights grow colder The Hunter and the Bear	W
Follow their tranquil course outside my window	G
I feel the gentian waiting in the wood	X
Blossoms waxy and blue and blue green stems	Y
Of the amaryllis waiting in the garden	Z
I know as though I waited what they wait	A2
The cold that fastens ice about the root	B2
A heavenly form the same in all its changes	C2
Inimitable terrible and still	M
And beautiful as frost Fire warms my room	D2
Its light declares my books and pictures Gently	E2
A dead soprano sings Mozart and Bach	F2
I drink bourbon then go to bed and sleep	S
In the Promethean heat of summer s essence	Q
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Awakened by some fear I watch the sky	D
Compelled as though by purposes they know	G
The stars in their blue distance still affirm	G2
The bond of heaven and earth the ancient way	H2
This old assurance haunts small creatures dazed	I2
In icy mud though cold may freeze them there	W
And leave them as they are all summer long	O
I cannot sleep Passion and consequence	Q
The brutal given and all I have desired	J2
Evade me and the lucid majesty	E2
That warmed the dull barbarian to life	K2
So I lie here left with self consciousness	L2
Enemy whom I love but whom his change	M2
And his forgetfulness again compel	N2
Impassioned toward my lost indifference	Q
Faithful but to an absence Who shares my bed	O2
Who lies beside me certain of his waking	J
Led sleeping by his own dream to the day	H2
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If I ask you angel will you come and lead	O2
This ache to speech or carry me like a child	P2
To riot Ever young you come of age	E
Remote a pledge of distances this pang	Q2
I notice at dusk watching you subside	I
From tree tops and from fields Mysterious self	R2
Image of the fabulous alien	Z
Even in sleep you summon me even there	W
When under his native tree Odysseus hears	S2
His own incredible past and future whispered	J2
By wisdom but by wisdom in disguise	T2
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Thinking of a bravura deed a place	U2
Sacred to a divinity an old	V
Verse that seems new I postulate a man	V2
Mastered by his own image of himself	R2
Who is it says I am Sensuous angel	W2
Vessel of nerve and blood the impoverished heir	W
Of an awareness other than his own	X2
Not these but one to come For there he is	Y2
In a steel helmet raging fearing his death	Z2
Carrying bread and water to a quiet	A3
Placing ten sounds together in one sound	B3
Confirming his election or merely still	M
Sleeping or in a colloquy with the sun	Z
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Snow and then rain The roads are wet A car	C3
Slips and strains in the mire and I remember	D3
Driving in France weapons carriers and jeeps	E3
Our clothes and bodies stiffened by mud our minds	F3
Diverted from fear We labor Overhead	O2
A plane Berlin or Frankfurt now New York	G3
The car pulls clear My neighbor smiles He is old	V
Was this our wisdom simply in a chance	H3
In danger to be mastered by a task	I3
Like groping round a chair through a door to bed	O2
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A dormant season and under the dripping tree	E2
Not sovereign ordering nothing letting the past	J3
Do with me as it will I savor place	U2
And weather air and sun Though Hercules	K3
Confronts his nature in his deed repeats	L3
His purposes and is his will intact	M3
Magnificent and memorable I try	D
The simplest forms of our old poverty	E2
I seek no end appointed in my absence	Q
Beyond the silence I already share	W
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I drive home with the books that I will read	O2
The streets are harsh with traffic Where I once	Q
Played as a boy amid old stands of pine	N3
Row after row of houses Lined by the new	F
Debris of wealth and power the broken road	O3
Then miles of red clay bank and frugal ground	B3
At last in the minor hills my father s place	U2
Where I can find my way as in a thought	P3
Gardens the trees we planted all we share	W
A Cherokee trail runs north to summer hunting	J
I see it when I look up from the page	E
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In nameless warmth sun light in every corner	D3
Bending my body over my glowing book	Q3
I share the room Is it with a voice or touch	R3
Or look as of an absence learned by love	S3
Now merely mine Annunciation specter	D3
Of the worn out lost or broken telling what future	D3
What vivid loss to come you change the room	D2
And him who reads here Restless he will stir	D3
Look round and see the room renewed and line	N3
Color and shape as in desire they are	C3
Not shadows but substantial light explicit	A3
Bright as glass inexhaustible and true	F
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My shadow moves until at noon I stand	T3
Within its seal as in the finished past	J3
But in the place where effect and cause are joined	U3
In the warmth or cold of my remembering	J
Of love of partial freedom the time to be	E2
Trembles and glitters again in windy light	V3
For nothing is disposed The slow soft wind	W3
Tilting the blood root keeps its gentle edge	X3
The intimate cry both sinister and tender	D3
Once heard is heard confined in its reserve	Y3
My image of myself apart informed	Z3
By many deaths resists me and I stay	H2
Almost as I have been intact aware	W
Alive though proud and cautious even afraid	L

Edgar Bowers

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