I hear all the outlawed world in harmony, The marshling stalks the green and gaunt Destroyers who heed not sparkling deserts Charged to the gill, nor candles pitching down Like doom. I note the scale of fossils In cloud covered peaks, record The seemly count of bodies by square root And irrational number, I am witness Bound to bounty to all who blaze in gray And shallow grooves seeding their ends In strikes on the ripe and smoldering fields.
II
I see all the outlawed world in harmony, Barking wood bracing by the bud, Where runs of blue, bury in vain Down slash of mountain forest, cascading Into august, rising after the fall, As do kind-killers blasting from shells To die as snails creeping under flower, Who saw the past wasting away In filed futures, slipping by blades in neck Of wood, sightless as gallows of trees Try ****** each time they make their leaves.
III
I know all the outlawed world in harmony, By seamless song of stuttering gulls, As in conches, waves of providence, Cell from the center, beating musseled shoals, Where wailing ghosts and wing-tips point Printed nails to the silent capes, And bumble hairs comb round the broken yokes Stirring streams of babble baited By flowering psalms, engaging arms to prey On tales told by the rood and drown In eyes turning like sands on the sea. .