FROM "PATERSON: BOOK II"
of new kinds-
since their movements
are toward new objectives
( even though formerly they were abandoned )
No defeat
is
made up entirely of defeat-since
the world it opens
is
always a place
formerly
unsuspected. A
world lost,
a world unsuspected
beckons to new places
and no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory
of whiteness
With evening, love wakens
though its shadows
which are alive by reason
of the sun shining-
grow sleepy now and drop away
from desire
Love without shadows stirs now
beginning to waken
as night
advances.
The descent
made up of despairs
and without accomplishment
realizes a new awakening
which
is
a reversal
of despair.
For what we cannot accomplish, what
is denied to love,
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