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Some Examples of Silence
by Michael Cope

A Movement of Air

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XIV

For air and seed and empty love, they dance.
They do not dance for memory, they are
Renewed without thought in the shining glance
Which is no gaze, but is the wing’s lodestar.

    They die because they live. They are alive
    Because they died. Their continuity
    Is in their present flight – they swoop and dive
    Mindful of their mindless potency,

Probing for comfort, following the way
Downwards to equipoise, to bright desire
One forearm’s length apart. The shining day
Alive as tumbling geometric fire

    In the movement of air, seeking the least –
    The air that breathes the house from the south-east.