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The Golem Envisions his Origins
5- The Golem, in a Trance, Envisions his True Origins
i never sleep yet slip
into a trance of wattle imagination
i see a field of cut timothy grazing
holstein cattle the vltava not far coursing
swiftly through pine sheltered
ravines squeezed from cow river
scythe and ax-bite i am
clay dung parchment and hay
then i see the sun burning off
the last of autumn a young woman
dreaming in the haze such a tableau
hayrick steaming manure grey
mud hewn wood could rise
summoned by word and sun heated
dreams enough to cast the spell
and when i come out
of the trance i understand
her fevers and the inherent
desperation of dream and spells
as though there was nothing more
natural in creation than i
con't.
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