MONTALE IN PROVENCE
19 SPECULATION ON THE LITTLE ICE AGE
21 LOOSE LEAVES OF UNPURSUED SPECULATIONS
22 SPECULATION ON THE PRESENT TENSE
27 SPECULATION ON THE WEIGHT OF YESTERDAY
29 ARS POETICA
30 SPECULATION ON THE ABSENT GOD
33 INTELLIGENCE
34 AT THE END OF THE LAST GLACIAL PERIOD
35 HIGH PASTURE
37 VESPERS
40 ANOTHER TIME
41 SPECULATION ON INVISIBILITY
42 SPECULATION ON CAUSE AND EFFECT
45 STASIS IN MOTION or THE SHOWER SCENE IN DOUGLAS GORDON’S 24 HOUR PSYCHO LASTS A HALF HOUR
46 ANEMOGRAPH
48 THE FRICTION BETWEEN A STRING AND BOW CALLS FORTH A PLAINTIVE HYMN
49 STUDY FOR THE FALL OF THE REBEL ANGELS
50 SPECULATION ON THE AFTERLIFE
51 ANOTHER SPECULATION ON THE AFTERLIFE
AUGURY
Inside the camera obscura,
a cloud,
Or the image of a cloud, grows darker.
The past warps, curls back round to touch the present.
Is it the spit and clay on the blind man’s eyes
Or the little spell of words that returns sight?
Look, they said.
So I looked. But I saw nothing.
A book of moths. A book of sand.
A book of stones unstitched from the wolf’s belly.
Shot through with light,
a book of blank pages.
The solution embodies yet keeps hidden
All dissolved within it,
keeps the hermetic
Hemmed in, the secret secret a bit longer.
