Pythagorean Silence (an excerpt)
by Susan Howe
1.

age of earth and us all chattering

a sentence or character suddenly

steps out to seek for truth fails falls

into a stream of ink Sequence trails off

must go on

waving fables and faces War doings of the war

manoeuvering between points between

any two points which is what we want （issues at stake）

bearings and so

holes in a cloud are minutes passing which is

which view odds of images swept rag-tag

silver and grey epitomes

seconds forgeries engender（are blue） or blacker

flocks of words flying together tense as an order

cast off to crows

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