And the wide arrowhead the road itself
"Now it's my turn to sing!"
XII. The Mystery of the Missing Ships: The Franklin Search
That open before me? What I see
In white, in paint too representative
and the numbed yards will go back undercover.
Toward something that the world is pointing toward
Bronze the sky, with no
Seized from creation by nonentity,
That desire has ever built, have approached
The edge of that other square cut from the right
With a hand freed from weight,
Green lilac buds appear that won't survive
What can we know of whatever picture-plane
Merely a mockery of spring
A rabbit carcass in its stiffened fur.
What can we know of whatever picture-plane
Oh, I know. The snow. The effective snow
Onto my frozen fingers.