Yes in a circle the imagined train
word after recent word
you make them up to come to mean
light to shadow day
pond as music's mirror
trees cut from yarrow stalks
would be real in order to seem
a reasonably green place
a reasonable number of roads
some straight, some curved and narrow
beside rails whose perfect parallels
are nowhere else to be seen
but in a sealed and measured space
called here and now for now

--Yes in a circle; Michael Palmer