THE SOUL SEEN AS AN ACT OF THE SELF

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that

 

"That was the white bird of all you were."

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was

 

"That was the remote unshrinking thought

whose wings outspread enveloped all of you,

hid this mincing, blinking, passing thing."

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what

 

"That was what was left when all the rest

was granted passage, became time's banquet."

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these

 

These are the imaginaries grown

in aviaries of the other years,

pulling you back from what there is for now,

thespians in a virtual Globe

that has no neighborhood, an audience

at best of one--yourself cast as your self.

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This is the only shifting entryway

to a finite production in an infinite play.

 

 

5 February 2000 Copyright © 2000 Richard P. Richter