IV  ON THE LEVEL

1  Faith in orogenesis, but not in the collection of fossils


A banned commodity?
Comedy, rather, banal, a bare
Impossibility unless we talk of take
Nature giving us of
Her nature, woman as she is
Bound to it, stuck
To the absurd procession to the Cobb's end
For our benefit
                                which it isn't, but
Some other project
That will outsmart us
Like the sea will
Destroy this town, history then
The abandoned commodity
Unusable except as ghost exchanges
Or bones like at Dunwich
White fragments to collect
And sell