Indeed, what change? The chimney of the spine
still burned its grey electric fire, and cool
morphology the life had followed followed
on doggedly; and still the mortmain rule
of mind unturned: still the chi-square fools
and saints, heroes and magicians; the foxed
imagination up abandoned pigeonholes
again: four elements, four compass points, nine
planets, the yearly solstices and equinoxes
and other more or less arcane lines
by which a man could try to warp
his own self and guttering neural synapses
against hoped for foggy quays … the orphic
gardens far beyond his glass ships …
In Retrospect
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