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" PRELIMINARY EXERCISE:

What does a turbine veil? a bird avail what chord?
I heard a bird whir no word, felt
a turbine shadow turning from the floods of time
electric currents the darkness stirrd,
and trees in blaze of light arose
casting shadows of speech, seductive, musical, abroad.
It was a single tree. It was a word of many trees
that filld the vale.
It was a store of the unspoken in the bird
that whirrd the air, that every occasion of the word
overawed. "

Robert Duncan


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Robert Duncan quote : PRELIMINARY EXERCISE:<br /><br />What does a turbine veil? a bird avail what chord?<br />I heard a bird whir no word, felt<br />a turbine shadow turning from the floods of time<br />electric currents the darkness stirrd,<br />and trees in blaze of light arose<br />casting shadows of speech, seductive, musical, abroad.<br />It was a single tree. It was a word of many trees<br /> that filld the vale.<br />It was a store of the unspoken in the bird<br />that whirrd the air, that every occasion of the word<br /> overawed.