She
hands sinewy trembling separated
bearers with arms straight out
of an emptiness so tense so intense so pounding
of a God so unbelieving so raving
that he outrages himself
gives in to himself
forgives himself
makes clay of himself
grey wait
to model
to tremble
to cherish
to bewail
the rejoined hands made seeing
flesh come from the prayer of blasphemy
from we know not what rage what courage
returning from we know not what voyage
what fatal inspiration
but as to the importance
as to the site the situation of the absence
where the heart since its naissance had been forgotten
we know not what negligence crime virtue
but from evidence
from obscure sentence
from a long breathless emptied line
from a long long breath
held
to the exhalation of time
at last
the sign of the beginning
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