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THE TANGENT MIND

W. Scott Howard

a pattern of what else / the poem

   

   
   

of a curve in this house
is a line / of the heart / neither dust

   

nor ribbon / two lives
someday together / emerging
from what is woven / happening

   

   
   

through glass or the years
on the sand / in the valley / we wear

   

the tangent mind / aflame

   

   
   

becoming is the subtle best seat
through knots / interwoven and tangles / within       

           

our tangible forms / finely seen
or through questions / unanswerable
rush after horses / always theirs already    

    

   
   

along the world tugs apart instead
the stone / my feet may measure / and the future

   

that of the bell may grow / will sway

   

   

 

                                                           

 

 


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"The Tangent Mind" appears in an unpublished collection, Transfigurations, where the poem introduces a sequence of conceptual works. The poem was found aflame, unanswerable