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from Novaless . . . XVII. living on a “smaller scale” . . . as if taking were dismal enough with a view to an early exit pitting their surface * all over with sounds or sensation of a finite rushing . . . migratory still those ruses de guerre true novation’s graphic rise its worse development over the spot with a controllable * emotion a skyline * the city’s modern monument blueberry -ing tender solicitude nothing worse than to stand * still unclear : “there’s plenty of time left” * mean -ing : with what he deserves XVIII. prepossessing it arose * that the best scenes natural to the locality perceptuo moto * low cerulean cliffs . . . that now she was alone . . . orchards now bossed * diverse points spoke of as master : of “mawn-baskets” gently they had reached * the last stage . . . at this time of year : rococo the bells more persistent his shirt-sleeves rolled in the identical stretch manner and aspect of the opposite * houses . . . a sustained mirror in gold * diagnostics : calm * a still promise . . . love unnervingly implied XVIII. for infinite fancies * idle dreams . . . colossal passion in embryo the whole matter hung : she rarely volunteered . . . from its aspects later with a little of the above -described “pride of life”. . . full of variety ! his belongings * seemed sorry no irony no novus homo this : his pacing in elliptical circles it ended in * a yard . . . gently shaking assumed offhand seasons * this individuality with the single view known and literally blinded * by tears . . . we were prevented meeting “only days and days . . .” it was the merest bud a cold iron had been passed walked and pondered between the high wild clematis : from its aspect later : “old man’s beard” XIX. the track . . . the children mullioned together letterings * flowerings mollified : the wax . . . snuff-coloured free -stone * violets penumbring ashlar : ivy armed * the dense plantation : a few dead lay about . . . manorial presentation * but the hole was full of beauty : the highest architectural cunning : a “dwelling-place” of wild silence kept XXI. reingulf . . . become part * of the encompassing the sense that the paths he * was pacing his dwelling : a higher plane than * his own . . . late indisposition slipping this one fragile * Life : the magic-lantern a glowing blue semanteme the last group of them in * the garden somebody : “he dwells among friends . . .” on each wick * as it kindled ruby-throated elegiac of time by law ordains that the houses fall recontract * in the possession of various at the end of whose * breathings would fall in * and become the painted slide palely rubine |
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nicholas
manning
is an Assistant Lecturer in Comparative Literature at the
University of Strasbourg, France, currently writing my doctoral
thesison rhetoric and sincerity in post-war European poetry. Poems,
articles, translations and reviews have appeared in such places as Free Verse, Fascicle, Verse, Dusie,
BlazeVox, MiPoesias, Cipher Journal, CrossXConnect, Shampoo,
amongst others. |
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