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Amazing Minute

TWO POEMS

             AMAZING MINUTB
The house has the cohesion of the stairs;
The stairs cohere in him who makes ascent,
Who traverses that brief plateau, the landing-
In this amazing minute all who mount
Their million terraces of stone or wood
And all their purposes are. soluble
In his identity, what each ascends for,
The open book forgotten on the table,
Sleep, petty thieving, fornication, murder,
Whatever mission's possible in him.
The house contains this elaborate container.
All climbs with him now the treads his feet climb.

                CAR TOP

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