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MARBLE by MINA LOY

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First Line: GREECE HAS THROWN - WHITE SHADOWS
Last Line: OF A LOST HAND


Greece has thrown white shadows
sown
their eyeballs with oblivion


A flock of stone
Gods
perched upon pedestals


A populace
of athlete lilies
of the galleries


scoop the facades of space
with spiral curves
of idol substance
in the silence


A colonnade
Apollo haunts Apollo
with the shade
of a lost hand




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