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He means, I think, there's an out,



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built of these fistfuls of yellows.
Means, I think, there's a door,

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in this passionate and hard-won
approximation, in this rough push

and lemon smear, this difficulty,


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there's—what? In the meadows
yesterday, great heavy presences

of the trees thinking, rimmed


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around the perimeter of the field:
pendulous, weighted, trees


here to be emerald pull
And resistance, suspended

their given hour, the meadow arranging itself

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into this huge composition which invites
and resists at once, the world's hung

surface: aren't we always wanting
to push beyond it, as if behind the scrim

—old lure and spur, old promise—

lay... The bright core
breathing?
[...]

[Excerpt from "Door to the River," by Mark Doty.]

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Comments (3)

Ray,



A truly beautiful piece of work. Made my morning.


d


I concur: quite lovely.


yeah ray, great! the destroyed and destroying. the bananas are wonderful - - - it's almost a form that could be something else, as if it might just get up and walk, which it probably wants to do...



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