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BEING HERE

  

And even could I adumbrate, in signs,

a model of the world, its spectrum, spectral,

I could not sense it, much less visualise

(space-time’s leaf mould, the end ground of things,

the beauty and horror of being—being here).

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(For full text see the Kindle ebook The Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)

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