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tid sah (Tom Atlee),  1969

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under fear and void stumbling
     slowly
confronting with a grunt
     the senseless maze
to find one moment rippling
     over sand
cast curved and shining
     out of salty dusk;
to preface time into a postscript
     land
in voices that cannot be read;
     then coldly,
with the fading face
     of pale prophet musk,
to redissolve in stoney silken sea.