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1. An arrow through the Earth
2. predicts the lean of horses,
3. their brightening necks,
4. loosed and circling the Palace at Versailles.
5. Who unleathers them while underneath
6. a slippery glacial till?
7. These anviled hooves
8. roll reducted worlds
9. of fossiled leaves and crush
10. unintended habitation
11. as kings in time
12. aloft their gilded passions
13. ride and whip the whitening eyes.
14. She turns away from windows
15. toward him.
16. An old day begins.
(*notation of changes in successive printings)
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1. ...the heart
2. eases the strictures of the...
3. redactable Houdini leathernecks
4. at St. Crox, St. Thomas, Thomas Merton
5. whom [sic]
6. the gravelly (groveling) (or feeds them oats)
7. These rubber-coated...
8. roll retracted (radiant) (ridiculate)
9. of attenuated Amber
10. Six fossilized
11. queens...
12. ...dead salamanders
13. slither...
14. She does windows
15. [not a sonnet]
16. Tuesdays.
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