James Tate

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Autumn

The transference bird of little mind has risen high
by its wings of coincidence
in the spacious sphere
of ineffable radiant light
in the lamasery of Pullahari
in the lamasery of non-dual carburetors

In the offering pit of the apparitional body
the fuel of evil tendencies of normal forms
the fuel of dream tendencies
that have been heated up
in the lamasery of the sharp knife
a heavenly tree with which the corpse fans himself.