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Ronald Johnson: Ark I, Beam 3

I KNEW THEN THAT I HAD COME TO A PLACE
— one after another (pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron)
as a radius of moths, bull’s-eye to light —

months dandelion to the instant

‘cornea’: The horny transparent membrane
in the forpart of the eye
through which the rays of light pass.

‘corona’: A halo or luminous circle — crown — around
one of the heavenly bodies.
A spectre seen during total eclipse of suns
or circumference
of a radiated composite flower.

mind over (under, behind, ahead) matter
fireearthair&water
imagining themselves cornfowers

as seen by man
/of the shuffle, flux to core, the last card turned the first/
‘The Juggler’
shape-shifter/mirror of forms/the ever-
uncoiling, slip-slap quicksilver

A WALKING STREAM

THE WAKING DREAM

“At the same time I saw myself in him, reflected as in a mirror, and it seemed to me that I was looking at myself through his eyes. But another feeling told me there was nothing in front of me but the blue sky and that within myself a window opened…”

through which The Voices called each to each

:       How to explain       :
the blind design,
or make it sane behind its shine?
How to inquire
within the fire?

through which reached a hand to write
where the inner regions, tangled along polarized garland,
turn faster than the outer