Word-fall

Falling fades from wearied vision.
(A ticking clock silenced by its own time)
Snow settles softly on itself.
(A blanket laid on a sleeping, familiar lover)
Could we imagine, our thinking to unlock
In weightless drifts upon a base of blankness,
In a wide field to soundlessly accumulate;
Could you perceive, hearing nothing,
But awakening to find the world made new
Under the collapsing crystal smoothness of white words;
Could you not see the taudry flakes ‹
But only change your gait to measure out new tracks:
Sun shimmers snow into your eyes
(The brilliance of sun on snow)
Flows feed flowers in Springtime
(And one newness becomes another)

KEY TO "Wordfall": Wordsworth's "Ode": "those obstinate questionings/Of sense and outward things,/Fallings from us, vanishings"[144-147], semantics, deconstruction, the accumulation of discourse, social progress, the experience of texts, the reproduction of texts