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SILHOUETTE Bewildered by a silhouette within
A square of light,
I had to blink,
Attempting resolution of the
fine-
Cut image at the tunnel's
end.
The plank-deck
Floor I walked over wavered
in the heat
Of early summer;
Every step a creak
Of weathered wood beneath my feet. My heart is thumping in my neck,
The tunnel swallows me,
illusions bend
Perceptions of my eyes and
brain; dimmer
Grew the light around me,
while the silhouette
Came nearer, more
distinct.
I seek
A meaning in its form,
not daring yet
To give her outlined figure
any name,
Despite an urgent inner ache
To do so: miles and
years that separate
Are present in my thought;
I know the game
Too well to thus be gulled by
any quick
Phantasm conjured like a
sweet
Sensation that eludes
attempts to make
It real, denying any
concrete
Actuality in the outer world:
Will it become a story others read?
Now walking on I let hope plunge to bleak Oblivion within this timber covered-bridge;
While making to
the silhouette a covert
pledge. . .
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