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CXXIV
Edward Hopper's Cape Cod Afternoon
The syndicate of the sunshine sits
and fixes, fixes: the flight of bees,
the tall flowers' cracking quits,
Wind's tiniest crease,

the blurb of birds, the hues
of a hundred wasted whys,
the One transparent truth,
the solid lie, Salvation's use...

until a sloppy strike of clouds
at eve, drops on the fix:
And tumults of gushing chaos mix
crooks/cops, kids/wet skids, wakes & crowds.

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