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Homuncular Forms

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Cape aux Morts.     Cape Diable,     Points of Massacre     Rocks and Island     a plethora of Wreck Bays.     But on Funk Island, nothing matters.     Brahmsian rhetoric could describe the island     Prokofievian,     the sound of Mars     homuncular forms;     an imperative monotone.     Murrelings fell from cliffs into the sea,     rose and floated in foam, screaming.     Olivaceous puddles.     Murres and gannets, kittiwakes,     sun splashed white & pitiless     light on rock    -     argon, radon, krypton     seasons of millennia suffocating     in the original gases of earth:     xenon, neon.     Granite intestines     with its outer edge lost     in the darkness between the stars.

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