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May Swenson - Cardinal IdeogramsMay Swenson - Cardinal Ideograms
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    A mouth.  Can blow or breathe,       be a funnel, or Hello.     A grass blade or a cut.     A question seated.  And a proud       bird`s neck.     Shallow mitten for two-fingered hand.     Three-cornered hut       on one stilt.  Sometimes built       so the roof gapes.     A policeman.  Polite.       Wearing visored cap.     O unrolling,       tape of ambiguous length       on which is written the mystery       of everything curly.     A step,       detached from its stair.     The universe in diagram:       A cosmic hourglass.       (Note enigmatic shape,       absence of any value of origin,       how end overlaps beginning.)       Unknotted like a shoelace       and whipped back and forth,       can serve as a model of time.     Lorgnette for the right eye.       In England or if you are Alice       the stem is on the left.   A grass blade or a cut       companioned by a mouth.       Open?  Open.  Shut?  Shut.
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