This poem is taken from PN Review 10, Volume 6 Number 2, November - December 1979.
Poem
ENDS
Stood at some land's end, looking out
From point, or cliff, or strand,
They gesture against sheer sky, sheer sea,
And do not seem to understand
How a point of land's a cul-de-sac;
Their gesture's rhetoric
Fine, there is no doubt -
Defined against immensity,
...
Stood at some land's end, looking out
From point, or cliff, or strand,
They gesture against sheer sky, sheer sea,
And do not seem to understand
How a point of land's a cul-de-sac;
Their gesture's rhetoric
Fine, there is no doubt -
Defined against immensity,
...
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