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Monday, April 28, 2014

The Noise by Lee Posna


a Sargasso of monologues that were all attracted to the
noise


� Clive James



As
the Great Pacific Garbage

Patch,
gyre of voyaged plastic

Irkutsks
and chemical sludge, most

fecund
upper section and sunniest

of
a deep pelagic cylinder

sea
myriad thousand cubic miles

big
with bright anchovies

is
one lens on a century



so
this rose window�

arabesque
brass tracery

to
which myriad