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To Alice, the Beast Appears
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63 To Alice, the Beast Appears Say a creature glows in the dark, body And soul afloat on a sea So southern you have to pass through An underworld to get Where it’s never dark. You’ve dreamt This creature’s spine and head and extravagant Tail lifted from the water so elegantly It must be curious, preening, still As life. You know It’s apocryphal. You take one photo After another. Carved ice, blue Water you must jump into, though You’ll take years to get your nerve, A day to stop chattering. I dreamed The creature. Alice pointed it out In this world, in which its pushMe pull-you shape keeps Changing. So pure, we could 64 Chisel chunks off to chill Our drinks. Instead, we leave it to sail wind And tide toward its necessary Vanishing. Ice-blind, we see right through it. ...