Circling back

Letter 6, from Michael Palmer's Letters to Zanzotto (The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems, Carcanet UK, 1999):

Dear Z,

So we accused mimesis, accused

anemone

and the plasma of mud,

accused pleasure, sun

and the circle of shadow.

Yes! Mimesis and pleasure...

From Red Yellow Blue (Sarah's Eighth):

Now that you know all the words

and I have almost forgotten them

Or now that you have experienced rain

for days on end

and learned to paint with red, yellow and blue

those days which seem to have no end

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