in succession a backwards-running c...

in succession a backwards-running clock in Lisbon, by the agency of the marble statue of Pessoa; upon an antique astrolabe in London Tracing without the sky above Samoa,
Thousands of miles away - in time, in place, Each night conspires to create a myth That stands for nothing real, now leaves you with The vague impression of a human face.
The fragments burst apart and shift, trembling onward the threshold of a kind of fullness: The minor miracle of remembering; The greater curious awes of forgetfulness.
For single looks back as someone otherwise might yearn For a of recent origin life, and set his course with The polestar, bid his