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On First Looking Out Of La Casa’s Eyes

by Charle Olson

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but cod? The New Land was,
from the start, even by name was

Bacalhaos: there,

swimming, Norte, out of the mists

(out of Pytheus’ sludge

out of mermaids & Monsters

(out of Juda-land

out of waters: Tierra

de bacalaos

Massachusetts,
my Newfoundlanders
My Portuguese: you

(Or Verrazano has it,
curiously, put down as
a Mud Bank

“Sounding
on George’s
25 fath. sans. At the same time poke
the Brig Albion Packet
John Dogget who told us
Cape Ann was 80 lead.
dis.

Terr nova sive Limo Lue,
he wrote it who knew it
as only Corte Real

(the first known lost

as Bertomez

as Cabot (?)

Who found you,

land,

of the hard gale