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Wet heat drifts through the afternoon	B
like a campus dog a fraternity ghost	C
waiting to stay home from football games	D
The arches are empty clear to the sky	E
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Except for the leaves those lashes of our	F
thinking and dreaming and drinking sight	G
The spherical radiance the Old English	H
look the sum of our being hath perced	G
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to the roote all our springs and falls	I
and now rolls over our limpness a daily	J
dragon We lose our health in a love	K
of color drown in a fountain of myriads	I
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as simply as children It is too hot	G
our birth was given up to screaming Our	F
life on these street lawns seems silent	G
The leaves chatter their comparisons	I
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to the wind and the sky fills up	L
before we are out of bed O infinite	G
our siestas adobe effigies in a land	G
that is sick of us and our tanned flesh	M
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The wind blows towards us particularly	J
the sobbing of our dear friends on both	N
coasts We are sick of living and afraid	G
that death will not be by water o sea	J
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Along the walks and shaded ways	I
pregnant women look snidely at children	O
Two weeks ago they were told in these	I
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selfsame pools of trefoil the market	G
for emeralds is collapsing chlorophyll	P
shines in your eyes the sea's misery	J
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is progenitor of the dark moss which hides	I
on the north side of trees and cries	I
What do they think of slim kids now	Q
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and how when the summer's gong of day	G
and night slithers towards their sweat	G
and towards the nest of their arms	I
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and thighs do they feel about children	O
whose hides are pearly with days of swimming	R
Do they mistake these fresh drops for tears	I
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The wind works over these women constantly	J
trying perhaps to curdle their milk	S
or make their spring unseasonably fearful	T
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season they face with dread and bright eyes	I
The leaves wrinkled or shiny like apples	I
wave women courage and sigh a void temperature	F
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The alternatives of summer do not remove	U
us from this place The fainting into skies	I
from a diving board the express train to	G
Detroit's damp bars the excess of affection	O
on the couch near an open window or a Bauhaus	I
fire escape the lazy regions of stars all	V
are strangers Like Mayakovsky read on steps	I
of cool marble or Yeats danced in a theatre	F
of polite music The classroon day of dozing	R
and grammar the partial eclipse of the head	G
in the row in front of the head of poplars	I
sweet Syrinx last out the summer in a stay	G
of iron Workmen loiter before urinals stare	W
out windows at girders tightly strapped to clouds	I
And in the morning we whimper as we cook	X
an egg so far from fluttering sands and azure	F
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The violent No of the sun	O
burns the forehead of hills	I
Sand fleas arrive from Salt Lake	Y
and most of the theatres close	I
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The leaves roll into cigars or	Z
it seems our eyes stick together	F
in sleep O forest o brook of	K
spice o cool gaze of strangers	I
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the city tumbles towards autumn	A2
in a convulsion of tourists	I
and teachers We dance in the dark	B2
forget the anger of what we blame	C2
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on the day Children toss and murmur	F
as a rumba blankets their trees and	G
beckons their stars closer older now	Q
We move o'er the world being so much here	D2
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It's as if Poseidon left off counting	R
his waters for a moment In the fields	I
the silence is music like the moon	B
The bullfrogs sleep in their hairy caves	I
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across the avenue a trefoil lamp	E2
of the streets tosses luckily	J
The leaves finally love us and	G
moonrise we die upon the sun	O

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