Book cover for Before Recollection

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From Before Recollection:
TRANSCENDENTAL POSTCARD



Ann Lauterbach
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The outlook such that time is told on waking,
Without aid of cock or clock's crow.
In fact all the birds are elsewhere,
Poised on glossy page or in some fall
Migration. Sun up over mountain is precision,
Then mist travels, exhaling day.
All else, all change, is air,
Dew relenting on the blades
And mirror rhymes
Where water bears resemblance:
A strut of hues to pale even Revlon's alchemy and,
In the center of its glaze, a cauldron of sky-cast blue.

  • ISBN10 0691066981
  • ISBN13 9780691066981
  • Publish Date 21 June 1987 (first published 21 February 1987)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 October 1997
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Princeton University Press