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RECONFIRMATION
By Quentin Smith
Look!! The sun is bursting
Out of an aquarium of blue—my eyes
Blinded in its light . . .
And damn the world, I write
Only to Enter,
To feel the life welling up
Inside me,
To break on a crest of soul into
The sun.
Now the sun is too bright
To look at, trees are wearing
Rings of burning diamonds -- the sky
Is swimming at the earth, and my brain
Mirrors the clear fire that drips
Off the branches in crossing rivers
Into eyes that shatter
Into white.
Written 1973
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