10.23.2008

George Oppen, "Animula," New Collected Poems

Chance and chance and thereby starlit
All that was to be thought
Yes
Comes down the road       Air of the waterfronts       black air

Over the iron bollard       the doors cracked

In the starlight things the things continue
Narrative    their long instruction and the tide running
Strong as a tug's wake    shorelights'

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