And so I gaze avidly
XI. Franklin's Last Voyage
Over the chilly dale.
That patch of white at the very end of the road
Partly stone, partly the absence of stone,
Of observation lying on the ground
The pain of being born into matter.
Are gliding toward me on the ice into
Blurring the terrain,
And trumpet at his lips; nor does he cast
Floating on the sky.
"Be off!" say Winter's snows;
Sphinx of questioning substance, or a sort
the old men burnish stories of Yaz and the Babe
demonstrating their talent for comedyė¾±troke
To watch me watch drowned snow lift from the lake.
So you can watch me watch uplifted snow
As it sits there like an eventual
The winged winds, captives of that age-old foe
