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Unknown: to greet the return of the gods prolegomena prolegomena that is to say the things that have to be said, Before anything can be said.

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As in Finnegans Wake, we are once more as babes, a wondering in a world made fresh. Were with the hen in the story a boot. We start from scratch.

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We start from scratch. I sometimes think I see that civilizations originate in the disclosure of some mystery, some secret and expand with the

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progressive publication of their secret and end in exhaustion, when there is no longer any secret when the mystery has been divulged. That is to say, profaned the whole story is illustrated in the difference between ideogram and alphabet.

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The alphabet is indeed a democratic triumph. And the enigmatic ideogram as Ezra Pound has taught us, is a piece of mystery, a piece of poetry not yet profaned. And so there comes a time. I believe we are in such a time when civilization has to

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be renewed by the discovery of new mysteries, by the undemocratic but sovereign power of the imagination, by the undemocratic power which makes poets the unacknowledged legislators of mankind, the power, which makes all things

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new. But perhaps, even the alphabet can be redeemed by turning it into poetry, with Denise levertov spawn, re learning the alphabet. The

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alphabet also has its mysteries. its secrets, it shapes, secrets that have been lost. The apocryphal Gospel according to St. Thomas,

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apocryphal gospel, apocryphal. All those good stories, they don't tell you in Sunday school, like this one about schools and alphabets. Now a certain teacher Zacchaeus by name, stood there. And he

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heard in part when Jesus said these things to his father. And he marveled greatly, that being a young child, he speak such matters. After a few days, he came near unto Joseph and said unto him, thou has the wise child, and he has understanding,

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come, deliver him to me, that he may learn letters. And I will teach him with the letters all knowledge, and that he salute all the elders, and honor them as grandfathers and

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fathers, and love them of his own years. And he told them all the letters from alpha, even to omega, clearly with much questioning. But Jesus looked upon Zacchaeus the teacher and said unto him, thou that Noah's not the alpha according to its

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nature, how can still teach others the beta? Thou hypocrite, first, If thou knowest it, teach the alpha, and then we will believe the concerning the beta. Then he began to confound the mouth of the teacher concerning the first letter, and he could

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not prevail to answer him. And in the hearing of many, the young child Seth to Zacchaeus Hear, oh teacher, the ordinance of the first letter and pay heed to this how that it has.

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And then Jesus exposition of the first letter has been entirely lost. What follows is really unintelligible in this and all the texts. There's Western civilization for you

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could not preserve even the A of the ABC of its greatest teacher. And so, again with Finnegans Wake, stoop,

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if you are absent minded to this clay book, what curios of signs, please do in this alas bed, can you read its world? So, we begin

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by relearning the alphabet. I mean, of course, the Greek alphabet with Denise levertov poem a

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Greek alpha, a joy, beginning and anguish ardor to relearn the art of knowing in unthinking joy to beloved stranger lives. sweep up

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anguish, as with a wing tip, brushing the ashes back to the fire score. Be Greek beta be

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to be to love another only for being. See, Greek does not have a

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C. C is a Roman invention. See, clear, cool,

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not those evasions. The seeing that burns through comes through to the fires core. De Greek delta

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d. In the beginning was delight, a dead stirred as one stirred fire unthinking dar, dar, dar and the blaze illumines dream. He Greek

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epsilon or ATIA. He endless, returning endless revolution of dream to Ember, Ember to anguish, anguish to flame, flame to delight, delight

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to dark and dream Dream to Ember. Greek has fi as in

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photograph, our Ph. F. That the minds fire may not fail. The vowels of affliction have unhealed not to feel it uttered. transformed in

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utterance to song not Farewell, not farewell. But fairing g Greek gamma g for into the grace of transformed continuance the

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green meadows of grief Dale, where joy grew flowering, close to the ground, or 10 tales recount. Ah Greek does not have an age, just a sign which is called a rough

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breathing. Ah and maybe had yet for the harvesting i, j,

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Greek Iota i j, into the world of continuance to find I who I am again, who wanted to enter a life not mine, to leap a why, deep, swift

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River. At the edge I stand yet, no, I am moving away, walking away from the unbridged rush of waters towards imaginations, holy forest, meaning to thread its ways that are dark, and come to my own clearing. Where dreamy, gloomy, friendly trees

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grow one by one. But I'm not looking where I'm going. My head's turned back to see whom I call Jester. Someone dreamed on the far bank, not dreamed scene. In epiphany, as in Picasso's head of adjuster was seen. I go stumbling, had turned back to my

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origins. If that's where I'm going to joy, my Jerusalem weeping gesturing I'm a small figure in mind's eye, diminishing in the sweep of rain or gray tears that clouds the far shore as jealous rage. Clouds love and changes it

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changes vision. k. Greek Kappa, K. Caritas says what I must travel

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to through to the fires core and alchemy. carta TAs clodagh TAs but find my face clenched when I wake at night in limbo l Greek

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lambda l. Back there forgetting among the letters folded and put away not uttered the feel of not to feel it was never said.

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Keith said desolation, absence and absolute presence, calling forth the gesture said from the far shore gravely ringing his bells,

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a tune of sorrow. I dance to it. You are off hand. The trouble is concealed. Isaac said, calling me for I am called forth from time to time.

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I was in the time of desolation. What light is it waking me absence has not become a presence lost

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in the alphabet. I was looking for the word I can now say love and then called for? onto the 12th letter.

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By the love in a question and Greek New and

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honest man, I wanted the moon and went out to sea to touch the moon and down a lane of bright, broken, vanishing, curled pyramids of moon water moving towards the moon, and touched the luminous dissolving

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half moon, cold. I am come back, humbled, to warm myself, honest man, our bed is upon the earth. Your soul is in your body, your mouth has found

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my mouth once more. I'm home and Greek, new and something in me that wants to cling to never once to have been wounded, deeper, burned

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by the cold moon to Cinder shrinks as the disk dwindles to vision. None not to continuance but to that source of minds fire. waning now,

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no doubt to wax again. Yet I perhaps not be there in its light. Oh, Greek Omicron shortall or omega. Longo. Oh hostile. Ordinary

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home order alone. Other

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hostile longing, ordinary rose, omnivorous. Home solitude somnolence grotto

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caught last. REM orient almost volition own only pain receipts

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rising from heart to head and out Apple Thunder rolling over the attic floor. Yet I would swear there had been savage light moments before.

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Peak pq Greek pi. Greek has no q pq

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in childhood dream play, I was always the night or Squire, not the lady Questor petitioner, win or lose not she who was sought the

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initial of quest or question branded itself long since on the flank of my Pegasus. Yet t flies always home to the present. Our Greek role

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released through bars of sorrow, as if not a gate had opened but I grown intangible had passed through shadow away from dark of yearning into

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a soft day, Western March. A thrust of birdsong parts the golden flower stick branching, that roof the path over. Arms enfold me tenderly. I am

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trusted. I trust the real that transforms me And relinquish in grief. The seeing the burn through comes through. Two fires call. Transformation continuance,

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as acts of magic I would perform are no longer articles of faith. S, Greek sigma s. Or no,

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it slowly becomes known to me. articles of faith are indeed, rules of the will, graceless, faithless, the door I flung my weight against, was constructed to open out toward me. In seeing two candle flames, blue ice

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Kevin measureless may not be forced by sharp desire. The prince turns in the word, retrace the steps seek out the hut, you pass, impatient. The day you lost

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your quality. There dwells it's a secret restore to it, it's life. You will not recognize your desire until thou hast did fast. It goes aside it has the cunning of Quicksilver. I turn in the

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forest, about me the tree multitudes twist their roots in earth, to rip it, draw hidden rivers up into branch towers,

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their crowns in the light sway, green beyond vision. Or utterance, takes me step by hesitant step towards tea. Greek tall, tea. Yes, to continue once into that life beyond the dead end were

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in a desert time of dry strange heat of dust that tinge mountain clouds with copper, turn of the year impending unnoticed, the cactus shadows brittle Thorn stars,

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time of desolation. I was lost. The forest is holy, the sacred paths out of stone.

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A clearing the alters are shifting deposits of pine needles, hidden waters, streets of choir would not what the world thinks to construct for its testimonies.

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You Greek ypsilon you relearn the alphabet relearn the world, the world, understood and knew only in doing under stood only as looked up into out of Earth. The heart of an eye looking the heart, a root planted in earth. transmutation is not under the

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wills rule. The Greek has no VV vision sets out journey in somewhere walking the dream waters

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arrives not on the far shore. But I prefer a place not evoked discovered. W Greek has no w.

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w. heart breaks, but men's like good bone it's the vein with wants to have been wounded deeper burned by the cold moon to Cinder. Wisdom stone dwells in forgotten pockets, loss, last

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refound exiled, revealed again in the palm of the minds and Moonstone of wax and wane, stone pulse. Why? Greek has no why, why vision will not be used, yearning will not be used, wisdom will not be used. Only

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the vain will strive to use and be used comes not defiers core, but Cinder z, Greek zeta z

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sweet Bob anguish as with wingtip. The blaze addresses a different darkness. Absence

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has not become the transformed presence the will look for, but other the present that which was poised already in the art of praise