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The Engagement.

"It seemed to me all over again that in every phase of living we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us" --Carrington, The Hearing Trumpet via @mjohnharrison

"The third challenge is how to translate a work which, by its own lights and in a quite literal sense, leaves the translator with nothing to translate."

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   deep vigil
in veil lungwort
   the cold trail
of a trial form
   which way out
the high window

7
   in the tell
buried ticking
   jester's twitch
germ of a pearl
   night's vast merge
with skull mumble

8
   the garage
whose light i raised
   with white disk
remember whelm
   of bitter
voltbare winter

9
   the temple
tilted to dry
   rattle-scrape
java's ready
   so much still
with no strict sign

10
   barely name
cloudfare numen
   warm biscuit
& weary tove
   indicate
to ents this hare

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   vision quest
requiring next
   the bold move
of mind-token
   to a square
squintingly grasped

12
   the rabble
in the rubble
   cloud wizards
clearly lacking
   deep cherry
the car hue change

13
   gargoyle rain
to rule a grief
   i wander
at will through streets
   ramified
with not resting

14
   church restored
from the charred hulk
   what gets kept
when that blue goes
   cling to those
from my clang'd years

15
   & fester
in fierce moonlight
   raise a hymn
from huddled woe
   ev'rywhere
is eke skipwreck

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   call it realm
of the rude dawn
   wheels come off
of our old car
   stuck out here
smack in harm's way

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   no time left
for lingerthwart
   for cruel jokes
that walk like crowns
   for parsing
the pure answer

18
   the Dog Days
their dark rattle
   riddle me
through rat's alley
   recognize
the new skyline

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   red Vespa
veering through turns

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