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Passage through a night in the “ seemetary ” moreover palpably embeds in human experience a sense of what it is to fall down “ dead to the world ” and to undergo a spectral transit through a dark “ noughttime ” at whose sunstruck latter end, after encountering shades and shadows and sometimes harrowing hell, one hurls back an immobilizing rock and undergoes a resurrection of the body into the sun’s day, at the pearly gates of dawn, under an eastering blade of matitudinal light :   “ Array !   Surrection ! ”

— John Bishop —
from :   Joyce’s Book of the Dark :   Finnegans Wake

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A spheroid pulled at the poles
—A pointedly comedic effect—
Can wobble or flip when thrown,
Or easily slip from the grip,
And the angle of bounce is unknown .
But keep these features in check,
And spiral this prolated shape
Of dimpled pigskin when letting it rip :
Then lo the rotational ellipse
Arcs through the sky with grace :
Zen of quadric face .

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Silhouette of Earth
Turns the silver moondust clay,
Violet, filtered
By atmospheric prism .
The stretched end is double-bent—
A sunset event.
And out on a limb, a blue-sky glow from ozone .

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The five main gyres of the oceans :   the seven seas woven,
Folding phytoplankton :   swells and shallows, a plane rolling .

A refuse eddy, France cubed to edges, current-corralled
Between continents ;  a confetto of plastics amorphous
Threatens the blue-green shell of the ocean touched by the daylight
That feeds the deeper reaches, calm under the weight of darkness .

Eighty-Thousand tons of plastic, one point eight trillion pieces,
Degrading in sun, smaller and smaller polymer s:
Neuston flotsam concentrate rivaling zooplankton .

Trending :   fish populations dwindling in plastic currents columnar .

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Zinc with some copper,
Percentage of a dollar
Not worth the bother

For standard shoppers
Or conventional robbers .
This upstairs dropper

Puzzles the scholar,
Since the ore in the hopper
Clobbers the proffer .

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