{
  "author": "<NAME>",
  "classification": "Free Verse",
  "keywords": [
    "Living",
    "The Mind",
    "Arts",
    "Sciences",
    "Music",
    "Language",
    "Linguistics"
  ],
  "period": "",
  "reference": "http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/240754",
  "region": "",
  "text": [
    "1.",
    "Cogs & cogs that cannot turn",
    "to recognitions: such dogs in the dark noonday!",
    "As if the tongue told & tolled",
    "Among",
    "the melancholic arcades.",
    "Where the",
    "advance toward the",
    "Time to try the knot, the Not",
    "Or to be caught",
    "Forever in nerve-traceries of Beauty . . .",
    "Unstrung, the structure is sound.",
    "2.",
    "Detour to far fires.",
    "To be counted missing . . . in a toroidal space",
    "That mimics the shape of its container, speech.",
    "The passive of, the possessive of\u2014",
    "Measureless intent,",
    "almost",
    ", the picture",
    "below the voice.",
    "Less a name than a substance",
    "Coming to stillness, star-inhabited.",
    "Less a substance than a sigh.",
    "3.",
    "thou,",
    "Divided here. O",
    "then",
    "Opened as earthen",
    "ring, cave-recorded.",
    "A mazed interior. Self-similar aisles of isles, pouring",
    "form from form.",
    "Lastness as device. Aligned as measurements (letters)\u2014",
    "as sensitive, all-too-sensitive compass",
    "needles forever seeking",
    "the frozen pole, the zero.",
    "Caption: \u201cAn end-of-century sailing ship,",
    "held fast in sheets of ice.\u201d",
    "4.",
    "No atmosphere is sufficient.",
    "An embryo in the brain is not yet breathing.",
    "There, the labor",
    "Of the living rock, where an ache, or bruise-ember",
    "will be discovered.",
    "Scored",
    "for Theremin, or permanently scarred.",
    "Where shadows point:",
    "lengthening to",
    ", as unmade",
    "scaffolding.",
    "Thus, repetition, resisted",
    "is the register of thought.",
    "Now here, even as staves are falling, another story",
    "\u2014intervallic\u2014cannot be told\u2014that is, besieged",
    "As the heart encaged in bone.",
    "The animal calls",
    ", disconsolate",
    "In its hollow mountain.",
    "5.",
    "Neither nor nor neither, time builds",
    "Its twelve tones between",
    "&",
    ".",
    "\u2014as the roots of the sunflower, arrayed over earthlight.",
    "Routes unreturning / term without terminus. Riding as reading",
    "Migrates",
    "underground.",
    "Writing as the righting",
    "Of fallen",
    "angles, of tangles of Accident\u2014",
    "arrives riven, a body never to be / surveyed.",
    "Abandoned in a wintry field, the sum of its travels",
    "\u2014its hunting the same as its haunting."
  ],
  "title": "Mazed Interior",
  "year": ""
}