Horatio
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my father could afford to pay the fare
my father could afford to pay the farethe horizon ahead was a curtain closedbehind the curtain in the next day laywittenberg and that winter two winters beforethe carriage that brought me from summer and a place where there was nothing for me to do there wasa draft that entered those long daysin from around the… Continue reading
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in the sun brillianced square
in the sun brillianced squaremy saturday shadow had shrunkdown to the smallcircle in which i stoodloudly the gander flocks gaggledand more loudly the merchant throngsand the throngs of purchasers haggledi receivedfree rumours of plagues and of warsfree news of birth and of death i was offered cabbage and kaleoffered turnips and carrotsgarlic and leeks beans… Continue reading
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there came a messenger once
there came a messenger oncein august it wasearly september late in the afternoonhis horsesweat lathered and panting he rodethrough the archway to the frontdoors the heavy oak doors to our priviledgehe brought instruction for besserercharles’ armies had occupiedstuttgart it was pillaged and burnedulm was taxed into destitution and submissionwhen others of his classmates here had… Continue reading
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in his voice i hear
in his voice i hearneither amazement nor fear as he glances again at that soul that ignites into the image of his previous kingit’s the same light he saw the night beforethere’s no funeral attendancein his attitude as he watches the specter move across the battlements like a torch that lights the bedchamber of the… Continue reading
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between that place
between that placewhen the light that litinto the specter of the deadking extinguishedand that place when that lightthat lit into that shadereignitedmarcellus leaneddown on his hands on the parapet peeredinto the horizontal abyss of the east i swearhe saw through a blind man’sdarkness that night like he sawthrough every horizonsaw all the way to norway… Continue reading
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