Insofar

as the golden larch grows out another spring,insofar as the needles look gold or copper

with the close of the growing season—and falllike the milk teeth of a mammal, deciduous,

insofar as deciduous is what falls down or off, reallywhat is cut off, insofar as a thing can be cut off

from its other, extraneous, as in the making ofdecisions, as in the feeling of this being severed

from an adjacent feeling for that, as if these feelingshad not a common vertex and a common side,

insofar as the tree you have in mind is bothconiferous and deciduous, could it not be turning

a color darkly adjacent to green, insofar asconiferous is cone-bearing but not also evergreen

in every case, insofar as a golden larch is real,and real is then the feeling of those cones

shaped like small artichokes, in a mast season,when they boss the golden larch like pieces

of ornamental carving covering the pointwhere the ribs in a vault or ceiling cross,

insofar as architecture might be analogousto arboriculture, or until a wind or creature

should detach a cone, which will easily detach,insofar as it is a golden, and not a true larch,

and once detached, will cast its long-winged seedsto life, insofar as life is there to catch them, to heave

and bury them, insofar as actions are decisionsas to what is or is not continuous.