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GHAZALS: 45 by JAMES HARRISON

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT IN COILS WORKS WITH RIDDLE'S LOGIC, RIEMANN'S
Last Line: WHO WHERE? WE ARE HAPPENED UPON AND ARE FOUND AT HOME.

What in coils works with riddle's logic, Riemann's
time a cluster of grapes moved and moving, convolute?

As nothing is separate from Empire the signs change
and move, now drawn outward, not "about" but "in."

The stars were only stars. If I looked up then it was
to see my nose flaring on another's face.

Ouspensky says, from one corner the mind looking for
herself may go to another then another as I went.

And in literal void, dazzling dark, who takes
who where? We are happened upon and are found at home.



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