Garden of Cyrus | Adam Ray Wagner

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The Garden of Cyrus1

 

in the eye lives

an orchard—sapamber in Autumn

the leafing seasoned voice

inverts in the retina

enters swirling over the treeside river

ovals of mist in elliptic whisperings

 

in the branching overeye the horizon finds trace of those “vocall and sonorous lines in Ecchoes… in woody plantations, by water, and able

 

to return some words;

 

if reached

 

by a pleasant and dividing voice, there may be heard

 

the loftiest notes in nature” alive in mist where sunholed eyes

 

see how reflection slips

from the sky in slight movement

 

  • water-like lit by the dark of this life the yearning eye finds

 

refractions

of the horizoned sun

as each hollow surface



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  1. Quotatation is from Sir Thomas Browne’s The Garden of Cyrus.

Adam Ray Wagner is a poet raised in Nebraska who is currently residing in Boise after brief stays in Colorado and Maine. Instagram: @adam.or.ray Twitter @adam_or_ray

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