the foretelling of innocence

5 groundwater songnotes

۱. an innocence which is bystanding but not
     in pretense    a grounding in the word
     as it foretells the beginning of soil

each beginning as the rupture that beckons
     fear and daunts it to dissolve - an innocence
     waiting as it bystands    but not in pretense -

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۲. learning to breach the waters of an inconstant
      yearn    the fill of sky was never enough -
      the hear of the unmasked is never song

leaving to break the starched shores    an
     accompaniment to the soothe of the river:
     as enough as the unmasked is ever song -

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۳. some act of retribution is the mark of lost innocence
          the same act can be the face of memory as
          it recollects unconscionable fragments of

broken song    the compendium of verselets are testimony
          to the race of havenots having too much memory
          too little song    foretold in the book of unmerry tales -

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۴. it is not the death of the fairytale that traverses the
      material dream    not the failure to bridge song
      of various discolor     not even the shores of non-

existence sparring with an untamed necessity - that
      undoes the other death    the one that is the flip
      side of multitudinous warmsomes fledgletting -

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۵. edge of beginnings saves night from shadow    this 
          is naught but the love of song which is every
          bird's prayer and each river's longing -

edge of beginnings denies night its dark    how 
         this longing for word is at the same time
         play and also war, that is for the song to know -