Spring

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Contents The Smallest Plant xii I. The Floor-Creatures Begin 3 Song Cycle 5 Amaryllis 7 The Sleepers 8 Vespers 10 And on the Seventh Day 11 (A) Version 13 A Palimpsest of the Tasks 14 Still-Life with Interior 16 And of the Words Afterwards 17 II. Envelopes of Sky 21 Like a Near Fold 23 Sublimation Attempt 25 Solstice 27 Where Are They Now, Unwilling Friends 28 The Word 30 Or Portals to Another World 32 III. The Lonely Animal 45 Dear Lonely Animal [Please share my Korean food with me] 47 Dear Lonely Animal [Last night I wanted nachos again] 49 Dear Lonely Animal [I miss you. The other animals] 52 Dear Lonely Animal [Let’s have a collection competition] 54 Dear Lonely Animal [Sometimes I could just] 57 Dear Lonely Animal [I’m writing to you from the loneliest, most] 60 IV. Text Message 65 The Practice 67 That’s Enough, Mr. Butterfly 69 The Return 71 A Hood Is Like an Ancient Chalice 73 Maroon Canoe 75 Today Mr. Rufo 77 The Bells 78 Spring 80 V. The Mandrake Vehicles 83 Note on the Mandrake Form 85 [Mandrake Vehicle 1] [not knowing enough to shriek when (not knowing when), they] 88 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 89 (liquid layer 1, excerpt) 90 [Towing no ghost, no wing, the] 91 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 92 (liquid layer 2, excerpt) 93 [Winnowing heart] 94 [Mandrake Vehicle 2] [while the outpour, while the spilling tenets of green, the green] 95 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 96 (liquid layer 1, excerpt) 97 [Weep, Lethe’s linnets, greet] 98 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 99 (liquid layer 2, excerpt) 100 [Thin paeans rust] 101 [Mandrake Vehicle 3] [for it promised sleep in delicate voice, for how must the] 102 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 103 (liquid layer 1, excerpt) 104 [Poised sin: deliver. Oust] 105 (grid remainder after letter liftoff) 106 (liquid layer 2, excerpt) 107 [Silver U.S. bombs] 108 for my teachers ...