IKARIA (THE NIGHT WATCHERS)

i.

charcoal black she goes among     something like scenery     stronghold this

ancestral home this walk of beacons upon the headlands     where landscape

ii.

there are others here     begun an age ago     the beacon this very night then

you took already the word hibiscus     where landscape where fires

determined to finish

iii.

this single movement     a conversation     and some bricks by the window have

broken through their whitewash     the lake hasn't frozen to anyone's

satisfaction     we live where the wind can't get in

iv.

and some bricks by the window     it is difficult to make certain determinations

at all     no again     I am going out to sea     there are others

v.

(refrain from removing     reminders I have been so long among these things)

vi.

likewise     difficult to at all determine what I would have certain     the beacon

this very night then     I will answer for     plain as sand or plain

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