James, this reminds me of Stevens in being philosophical with some exotic fauna sprinkled in to save it from abstraction. I happen to love Stevens, but it’s more for his language than for his philosophy, which I’ve never gotten my head quite around. I enjoyed the dazzling wordplay of your previous two poems, but here you’re playing up the philosophical with a sparer, almost syllogistic style. Anyway, I’m just trying to sound intelligent while admitting that the poem is still dark inside for me. I’ll keep feeling around for the light switch.
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