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They're attending the grass
where the sidewalk
joins, and attending the several
doings of day, the aquamarine, the swing
set and exigency (the domain &mnemonics).
Piecing
the park together, a sequence
of dears, whence and whither,
serpentine
in apposition. And the pleasures dally
in the arbor, the half world
in dollops, egg and dart (the acclivity,
The colored balloons go off
at once
and the blues and the reds
and the yellows go off
a priori in April. Without apologies,
doddering for this
and that, exeunt
severally, the colored balloons.
The apricots the redolent
bristling with ardor,
of equilibrium at their apogee,
attendants in light,
go off. Categorical and stacking
as the plethora as the quorum
as the lullaby halve
the surface and the straining,
the epistle the firmament go
in April in Appertain.
by ones. Little bodies scattering, busy,
the yard spreading
all around. And one says look
and they all look
saying Up saying Up
with a certain flavor
(carrot grass, mint leaf).
And the bodies in light
turn in the grass
each parallax.
Busy no bulwark on my republic
busy no coterie on yours.