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First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed
Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares


O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed
and unforgetting other times that refused to swirl and flow.

The calendar above my head made of unnatural numbers, day
lasted five days and I expect a splendid year's worth of dawn.

Rain pumps. Juliet in her tower and Gaspara Stampa again and
that girl lolling in the hammock with a fruit smell about her.

Under tag alder, beneath the ferns, crawling to know animals
for hours, how it looks to them down in this lightless place.

The girl out in the snows in the Laurentians saves her money
for Montreal and I am to meet her in a few years by "accident."

Magdalen comes in a waking dream and refuses to cover me,
crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring.





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