Belief

It is out there, light
polishing the field, turning the long
blades not green, not gold;
but a necklace of these
hues, a perishing bridge
of angles and distance--
so that we must be in a kind od spell
while we live; how light effects
this silvering, then spills
into the relative dark.  Impossible
being, what a strange metaphor;
you glaze the entire world
with light-- and what does that mean
when we can't even see what it is
we see by?







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