The last item in her box.

as if each year the antlers would arise
from the unshed first buds of themselves
and each year more ornate: the phoenix dies
folding its feathers in fire, rehatching from
the unquenchable egg of itself, gaudier
each time, with longer feathers—
now after diapause through the green fuse
the black root sets off white floral jets
anaglyphic in her stainless fingers
as she plucks them, moly in chrome
a more than chromatic song folded and stretched
from last year’s, parapasserine ultracanary
uncaged now at last in the shade of herself
cast without rage in the undying light
nothing sparing or saving for next time.
now is the next time. now
sing, melismatic automaton
in microtonal diapason.

Posted by Søren Renner on Saturday, April 1, 2006 at 11:46 AM in No particular place to go
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Posted by Guessedworker on April 01, 2006, 05:29 PM | #

Well, that is certainly the most beautiful post to appear on our page. Can a creature of Great Nature be called an automaton? And I thought the only mechanicity was Man’s.

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Posted by Søren Renner on April 01, 2006, 05:35 PM | #

You didn’t try to solve the riddle. GW, what is the last thing in her box? The poem gives an answer. It’s Saturday, after all!

3

Posted by Guessedworker on April 01, 2006, 05:46 PM | #

Oh! Spring > rebirth > Pandora > hope.

4

Posted by Søren Renner on April 01, 2006, 06:01 PM | #

GW, shall we ditch the others and have our own blog just for us? This isn’t the first time you have won the Saturday Riddle Classic—may it not be the last.

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Posted by Andrew on April 01, 2006, 06:05 PM | #

Pandora’s Box and or serendipity. Not Shakespearian, hell , stuffed if I know.

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Posted by Phil Peterson on April 01, 2006, 06:53 PM | #

I’ve never cracked a single one of these. I am hopeless at riddles.

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