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Spring 1965 • Vol. XXVII No. 2 • Poetry |

“Such an Adam as He Is in the Motions”

  The south dreamed me that day I
climbed, in cloud, to a summer spun of leaves
where leaves spread lakes around the boles of trees
    and shine back to the sky

    water on water! and every thing climbing
through to the sun, fiber and whisper hot
and to the sense still, and all so shot
  with gold, the eyes ring!

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