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Meanwhile, on South Park.

the shark-scarecrow shadow
shunted off the cough track
adroit drottkvætt locust
drizzles grisly hawkings
fields where quailed a foundry
fistulas lisp passwords

Jet Black.

When Laura Riding collected her poetry she divided them into "Poems of immediate occasion" & "Poems of final occasion" though i defy anyone to sort them blindfolded. Truth is, it's all immediate occasions--sometimes gestated in years--but who can say? What i observe is certain words, certain images swim into my orbit; sometimes they spin a bit & escape, sometimes they become a moon.

"As well as villanelles he is known for his ‘Hungarian sonnet sequences’: a linked series of fifteen sonnets in which the last line of each is the first line of the next, and the fifteenth sonnet consists of all the first lines in order."