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ARIA
The Perpetual Calendar

I.
 What could be simpler? Four
scale-steps descend from Do.
Four such measures carry over
the course of four phrases, then home.

At first mere four-ale, the theme swells
to four seasons, four compass points, four
winds,
forcing forth the four corners of a world
perfect for getting lost in

or for filling, by divide and multiply.
Four secret letters, tetragrammaton,
start to speak themselves, the tune
doubling down a net of no return.

What could be simpler? Not even music
yet, but only counting: Do, ti, la, sol.
Believing their own pulse, four tones
break into combinations, uncountable.

II.

From language to life is just four letters.
How can that awful fecundity come
from four semaphores, shorthand and
dumb,
nothing in themselves but everything?

Gene-raining cascade, proliferating green
tints, varieties senseless except for their
own
runaway joy in the explosion. Fresh
phloem-
pipes, palisades, leaves ripe for
insect-aping.

All patterns patented: gyro, chute,
receiver,
fish that track ocean back to first stream
or steer pitch black by trapped bacterial