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[contrariwise]

April 78 Poetry magazine
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=22
Leaving Arles: light, color, France, travel
"The brown and purple light of Arles is still around our hands. And they carry more than this: The last and sometimes secret gifts a traveler must declare: a grocer's list, some foreign coins, a magazine in French, the pain of knowing places once, and faces without names."
Syntheses of Love https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=24
Hatred: "Even love does not consume us quite so thoroughly" "there is a kind of glory in anything done to extremes"
"seeming indifference, colder than hate"
Hommage to Tristan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=26
"In what incalculable metal are your fingers inlaid?"
"At first I didn't think
He knew what he was doing,
But I was wrong;
He knew exactly what he was doing."
The Islands: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=30
Shall we two settle there?
We talk, me at the tiller,
you with your gaze set
across the gray water.
And shall we live forever?
The Childhood of Homer https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=32
"as if the heart, as if the sea"
"The goddess on the napkinned beach
in dancing said, 'You must know what
you chiefly want. You must want me.'"
The Muse of Satire: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=34
"In time, perfected so she never walks again, she'll burn your buildings down."
Superbia: A Triumph with no Train: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=132&issue=1&page=35
"For each act there is an onset, for each sin, the first descent."
"But he remembered nothing wholly trivial."