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From my window I could not see the moon,
and yet it was shining:
the yard among the houses—
snow upon it,
an oblong in the darkness.
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In the dark woods
the dark birds fly:
do you
with your single star, new moon,
come to light this darkness?”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Jerusalem the Golden.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 94.
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“In daylight red is a conspicuous color, but in the sea a red object appears quite black at a distance of only a few meters owing to the rapidity with which red rays are absorbed by water; and at depths below the penetration of the red rays it could not appear red at all because an object can appear in its true color only when bathed in light with rays of its own color. At night some dark-colored fishes migrate to the very surface, and many other deep-dwelling animals also make daily journeys from the depths when the inhibiting effect of daylight is removed (see below).”
Sverdrup, H. U., Martin W. Johnson, and Richard Howell Fleming. The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1942. pp. 829-830.
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“Low rolling hills covered with sage; neither house nor cattle. By nightfall
it is snowing.
The dark ground is flat to the river—bright with dawn;
beyond rise the mountains blue and purple;
the blue of the sky becomes purple, in which a star is shining.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Autobiography: New York.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 194.
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“The train leaves New York—leaves the tunnel: yesterday’s snow
in the corners of roofs, in the furrows of ploughed fields,
under the shelter of the naked trees,
on one side of roads and one bank of streams—
wherever the morning sun did not reach it;
turbulent streams running in twenty parallel currents;
slopes showing on top a dark band of naked woods.
Bits of coal rain on the roof of the car,
smoke from the engine is blown in front of the window,
and on the flat land beside the rails
the snow is blown about.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Autobiography: New York.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 194.
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“Similar lists can be made for discoveries in other fields. Cosmology gave us the expanding universe, dark matter, and jaw-dropping vistas of endless billions of galaxies. Chemistry explained the world using the periodic table of the elements and gave us plastics and a cornucopia of wonder drugs.”
Ramachandran, V. S. The Tell-tale Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human. New York: W.W. Norton, 2011. p. xii.
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“Of many false doors. Words
Blame objects for lack of effect.
Dreams echo food and housing. The air
Turns dark to bright and back,
Sped up in the brain.”
Physics”
Perelman, Bob. “History.” Primer. Oakland, CA: This Press, 1981, pp. 66-7.
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“Windows now lit close out the
upper dark the night’s a face
three eyes far fainter than
the day all faced with light
inside the room makes eye re-
flective see the common world
as one again no outside coming
in no more than walls and post-
card pictures place faces across
that cautious dark the tree no
longer seen more than black edge
close branches somehow still between.”
Creeley, Robert. “Helsinki Window.” Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. p. 346.
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“out of this house is the sound of the sea
sand falls from the ceiling
buildings more buildings
animals one by one in the night
the lamps are flowering
in the street
great phosphorescent jellyfish swim through the dark"
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “the wreck.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p. 27.
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“i hear them when the light starts to die in the eyes of the buildings
their shadows rise like smoke
bleeding in windows in the east
i hear them
wringing over the dark shoulder of the earth as it rolls away from
light”
Antin, David, and Charles Bernstein. “constructions and discoveries.” A Conversation with David Antin. New York City, NY: Granary Books, 2002. p. 23.
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