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[proximoception]

I hallucinate something of a sequence to these ones:

1. At least – to pray – is left – is left –
Oh Jesus – in the Air –
I know not which thy chamber is –
I’m knocking – everywhere –

Thou settest Earthquake in the South –
And Malestrom, in the Sea –
Say, Jesus Christ of Nazareth –
Hast thou no Arm for Me?


2. My period had come for Prayer –
No other Art – would do –
My Tactics missed a rudiment –
Creator – Was it you?

God grows above – so those who pray
Horizons – must ascend –
And so I stepped upon the North
To see the Curious Friend –

His House was not – no sign had He –
By Chimney – nor by Door –
Could I infer his Residence –
Vast Prairies of Air

Unbroken by a Settler –
Were all that I could see –
Infinitude – Had’st Thou no Face
That I might look on Thee?

The Silence condescended –
Creation stopped – for Me –
But awed beyond my errand –
I worshipped – did not “pray” –


3a. Like Eyes that looked on Wastes –
Incredulous of Ought
But Blank – and steady Wilderness –
Diversified by Night –

Just Infinites of Nought –
As far as it could see –
So looked the face I looked upon –
So looked itself – on Me –

I offered it no Help –
Because the Cause was Mine –
The Misery a Compact
As hopeless – as divine –

Neither - would be absolved –
Neither would be a Queen
Without the Other – Therefore –
We perish – tho’ We reign –


3b. I saw no Way — The Heavens were stitched —
I felt the Columns close —
The Earth reversed her Hemispheres —
I touched the Universe —

And back it slid — and I alone —
A Speck upon a Ball —
Went out upon Circumference —
Beyond the Dip of Bell —

3a and 3b because you could read either as being before the other: is she addressing the auroraless sky, in 3a, or is this blank the closed columns, the thing behind the sky revealed during auroras?