Excepting

“There can be a brick
In a brick wall
The eye picks”

“Nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes” — “of truth itself” — “one corner” — “this small corner” — beside — “Elsewhere occurs—I remembers—

loss” — just — “The eye picks // So quiet of a Sunday” — “…so.”

Epigraph) George Oppen, “Of Being Numerous”   line 1) William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, scene 3; Tomas Transtromer, “Streets of Shanghai”; “Athwart”; “Saving”; John Berryman, “Dream Song 73: Karesansui, Ryoan-ji”   line 2) Berryman, continued; Oppen; Shakespeare