"my mind a shuttle among / set strings of the music / lets a weft of dream grow in the day time, / an increment of associations, / luminous soft threads, / the thrown glamour, crossing and recrossing, / the twisted sinews underlying the work."
— Duncan, Robert (1919-1988)
Author
Date
1968
Metaphor
"my mind a shuttle among / set strings of the music / lets a weft of dream grow in the day time, / an increment of associations, / luminous soft threads, / the thrown glamour, crossing and recrossing, / the twisted sinews underlying the work."
Metaphor in Context
my mind a shuttle among
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lets a weft of dream grow in the day time,
nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; an increment of associations,
nbps; nbps; luminous soft threads,
the thrown glamour, crossing and recrossing,
nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; the twisted sinews underlying the work.
nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; set strings of the music
lets a weft of dream grow in the day time,
nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; an increment of associations,
nbps; nbps; luminous soft threads,
the thrown glamour, crossing and recrossing,
nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; nbps; the twisted sinews underlying the work.
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Peter Quartermain, ed. Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), p. 307.
Date of Entry
07/28/2021
