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On First Looking Out Of La Casa’s Eyes

by Charle Olson

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( What he drew who drew Hercules
going by the Bear off from Calypso…

Now, it would be breakers, Sable!
ahead, where, just off,
you could put buckets down

(You could go any coast
in such a raft as she taught,
in such a raft
as she taught him, favouring him
with cedar, & much niceties, It was only because the god willed.
that he could leave her, go away determined though he had be on the whole time
not to eat her food, nor to wear gods’ clothes,
to stick to what, men ate

And wore

(The Atlantic
was to take kings.

Or fishermen.

And Europe, just then,
was being being drained
of gold