#507 paper a cut map beautiful land beds tree the air to dance in time what ground stretches out dancing, you feel like dancing so many winds blowing forest the mind flight the sun on the open then the earth wall A swerve away from what? Where was I before I swerved? For the reader, the first word of the poem constitutes the first swerve – away from a less attentive to a more intensified state of awareness. We may also want to ask: a swerve toward what? Perhaps the only fit answer lies in our reading of the poem, a moving with (and being moved by) its words. * Each turn is a re-turn, and turning itself is at the heart of verse and…
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