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A faggot of instincts / that within the year / rises / the caryatid of an idea / Two elongations of its will / arm -- crave / the curious glare / virile / behind unravelable wire / The staring baby / stumbles to the fire / Her consciousness / sluggish / to raucous surfaces / of necessities / quickens / to colour -- thrusts / of the quintessent light / -- -- - -until a woman's / ineludable claws of dominion / lift her above the Elysian / fields of flame / in a receding / prison / of muscular authority / an agency / for displacing / the finer aspects of the objective / in her sight / and turning to shame / the nucleus / -- -in infantile impotence- -- of Primeval Right / The suctional soul / clings to the vari -- pinct universe / With its reverse / of increate shadow / into which all / elating shows / recede / or roll / A crimson ball / bouncing / to her spontaneous psalms / of happiness / rolls / into non- -- - being / under the aera- -- - ivy's / diaper of rain- -- - pocked dust / She must / make her a rose / out of red thread / but red / ness / is inadequate / to the becoming of a rose / - The- -- red- -- reel- -- rolls- -- - --
The prismatic sun- -- - show / of father's physic bottles / pierced by the light of day / extinguishes! as she is carried away / Her entity / she projects / into these sudden colours / for self identification / is lost in recurrent annihilation / with an old desperate unsurprise / Her emotions rise / from no beginning / They are worn / with racial patience / So she is patient / with the temperate under- -- tones of hostile bodies / that stand still / and those / that move / in fretful thunder- --