In a vertical vortex,
Like Yeats's gyre,
The incense respires.
The smoke submits
To unseen currents.
It crumbles,
Disintegrates, and testifies
To grander lies.
The incense-smoke pools
Under the blue arm-lamp
'Til surrounding gas soaks such dust
Into the damp.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
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