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PHANOPOEIA: CONCAVA VALLIS by EZRA POUND

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First Line: THE WIRE-LIKE BANDS OF COLOUR INVOLUTE
Last Line: STRETCHES BOTH SEA-CLIFF AND OCEAN.

The wire-like bands of colour involute
mount from my fingers;
I have wrapped the wind round your shoulders
And the molten metal of your shoulders
bends into the turn of the wind,
AOI!
The whirling tissue of light
is woven and grows solid beneath us;
The sea-clear sapphire of air, the sea-dark clarity,
stretches both sea-cliff and ocean.



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