Vol. 34 No. 1 1967 - page 99

LAST QUARTER When
parenthf3ses
appear to be
opening then
beware of an
ending Never
misread such
signs as the
bold crescive
ds of becoming
or of initials
curving toward
the words like
Come Clear Cup
Changes Comedy
Crystal Create
or even Crowns
Their openings
stand only for
closings As if
our cupped left
hands held out
sickle-like to
cradle a round
tower's bulbous
copper top cut
some blue some
room some hope
out of the sky~
fierce surplus
so these C-like
marks close up
But C-creatures
grow yea truly
behind and yet
beyond limits
So unrealities
copclude in an
eclipse of old
moonlights by
the darknesses
of origin Here
where the horn
of light thins
out into what
is almost gone
or lost a new
form starts as
a part of life
begins