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Gautam Verma WINTER LIGHT | Winter light (1)
white and shadows trail the lawn
tree shapes flicker and flail
and a gate yawns
[ May night more swiftly make is way (2)
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somewhere in the margins a music begins
__ (1) Title of a film by Ingmar Bergman (2) Variant on the famous last line of Rilke's Spanish Trilogy ____ Rilke's "time now for heartwork" . . . and a search for a landscape of interiors. The ways this is lingual, and a music we cling to. |