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Searching for the Canto Fermo

Searching for the Canto Fermo THEMISSOURIREVIEW SEARCHING FOR THE CANTO FERMO / Diane Wakoski Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness for Norman Hindleyis an utter blackness. Robert Creeley, "A Form Of Women" Preface: Thoth, an ibis standing on one long leg, or a dog-headed baboon, was given the moon, a gift created especially for him by Ra, when Thoth the form of the beautiful woman, Tefnut. His own eye, then, Thoth's, the moon, that litchi nut. And Nut (noot), that woman stretched out, her searched in the desert and returned to Ra his Eye who had run away, in elongated body arched over the earth so that only her toes and fingertips touched her husband, Geb, the earth, Nut, Night, tall woman was befriended by Thoth who felt sorry that Ra, jealous, decreed that Nut would not be able to bear children during any month of the year. The wily old dog-headed baboon, Thoth, he played dice with the moon, and won from him a seventy-second part of his light. Five days, on that 360 day lunar calendar, and on each of these days, respite from the rest of the year, Nut could give birth. So, she and Geb http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

Searching for the Canto Fermo

Wakoski, Diane.
The Missouri Review , Volume 1 (1) – Oct 5, 1978
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THEMISSOURIREVIEW SEARCHING FOR THE CANTO FERMO / Diane Wakoski Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness for Norman Hindleyis an utter blackness. Robert Creeley, "A Form Of Women" Preface: Thoth, an ibis standing on one long leg, or a dog-headed baboon, was given the moon, a gift created especially for him by Ra, when Thoth the form of the beautiful woman, Tefnut. His own eye, then, Thoth's, the moon, that litchi nut. And Nut (noot), that woman stretched out, her searched in the desert and returned to Ra his Eye who had run away, in elongated body arched over the earth so that only her toes and fingertips touched her husband, Geb, the earth, Nut, Night, tall woman was befriended by Thoth who felt sorry that Ra, jealous, decreed that Nut would not be able to bear children during any month of the year. The wily old dog-headed baboon, Thoth, he played dice with the moon, and won from him a seventy-second part of his light. Five days, on that 360 day lunar calendar, and on each of these days, respite from the rest of the year, Nut could give birth. So, she and Geb

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The Missouri Review – University of Missouri

Published: Oct 5, 1978

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