Strange the rearrange
of lines and stops,
their breaks / relations -
a comma dashes,
a semi-colon pulls in its tail:
something I called the present
is past - as if wings burred away
when I came out to sit,
or I heard the snick of an
oiled gate
lock or unlock.
There are broken and unbroken lines
of course where yarrows* fall
or three coins smack flat,
tintinabulate -
one rolls crazily away;
but none of this is oracular,
any more than three little finches
high in the milky thorn
sunlit now against a divine sky
under swift-sickle fly-bys,
tweeting are prophets.
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*People use three yarrow sticks (or coins) to do the I Ching. A text used for divination. Very popular in the Seventies
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Bare Shouldered
Poetry"The difference of high Sensations with and without knowledge appears to me this - in the latter case we are falling continually ten thousand fathoms deep and being blown up again without wings and with all [the] horror of a bare shouldered Creature...
