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I HELD A SHELLEY MANUSCRIPT
My hands did numb to beauty
as they reached into Death and tightened!
.
O sovereign was my touch
upon the tan-ink's fragile page!
Quickly, my eyes moved quickly,
sought for smell for dust for lace
for dry hair!
.
I would have taken the page
breathing in the crime!
For no evidence have I wrung from dreams--
yet what triumph is there in private credence?
.
Often, in some steep ancestral book,
when I find myself entangled with leopard-apples
and torched-skin mushrooms,
my cypressean skein outreaches the recorded age
and I, as though tipping a pitcher of milk,
pour secrecy upon the dying page.
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