Ragnarok - VIII

The dawn above the east was solid light From edge to edge. If all the sky were one Piece of soft paper, dipped into a cup Of melted luminescence, that light crept Up it by capillary tug, spread out Neon infection through the fiber sheet, Just so...

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Ragnarok - XV

As haloed patriarchs, hewn from the stone Atop the arches, mid the cornices Where gargoyles grimace at the bitter taste Of dusty rainwater, watch heretics Self-excommunicated all depart, Stoic, still militant, and stony-faced Shed not one tear,...

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Autumn Is A Pagan

Autumn, he is wandering down in the market square Where they are selling scarlet fruit and golden-tassled sheaves Heaped on the fitted cobbles that are cloaked in drifting leaves, And any citizen who likes can see him walking there. He talks of...

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Ragnarok - X

Like a gazebo in an empty park-- Where silent is the playground, where the paths No longer feel the tread of shoes or hear The jangle of the collar and the leash, Where wild and weedy tend the lawns, and trees Grow forestlike and rough--where once...

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Ragnarok - XI

Somewhere it was after midnight, when The long hours of the morning stretch ahead Sideways, so that they wider grow and can Contain more night and not take up more time. Somewhere a boxer wandered in his dreams Down streets abandoned, over bridges...

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Ragnarok - XVIII

As does a man who from an areoplane Leaps for heart-stopping sport hang for the half, Half-second that his heart is stopped, and sees The world spread out below, amid the clouds, And wheeling slowly, like the stars at night, Until gravity finds...

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Ragnarok - XII

Somewhere it was sunset. On the hills The last refractions of the scarlet sun Licked at the upper edges, like a flame About to catch on paper, but below All now was more than darkness, as the bars Crossed cruciform around a lantern wick Grow...

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Through the Cracks - Had the Chance Been With Us that Has Not Been

## The titles say: Part 1 - Had the Chance Been With Us that Has Not Been "So." The bat is back, as the titles fade from the screen. They're replaced by subtitles, that say ### Mikhael - Private Investigator "First thing that happens when I walk in...

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(something strong)

[SOMETHING STRONG] Leo: You got something like that first one, but stronger? He grins. Chase: I think I know what you need. The drink he pours is thick, almost syrupy. It's a rich dark chocolate color. It smells somewhere between beer and coffee...

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Through the Cracks - No Farther Seek His Merits to Disclose

## Finally the titles say: Conclusion - No Farther Seek His Merits to Disclose "There still remains the chance, the hope," the fox's voice does not sound like the voice of someone who believes there's the chance, the hope, "that everything we've seen...

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Through the Cracks - With Dreams, With Drugs, With Waking Nightmares

## The titles say: Part 2 - With Dreams, With Drugs, With Waking Nightmares A sturdily built ram in a flannel shirt stares down at his clasped hands. What he has to say starts playing, while the camera still lingers on the shot of his clenched...

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Ragnarok - XIII

Where once the yearly snowmelt flood had carved A narrow serpentine defile, that poured Itself onto the plains until there was No more snow left to melt, now were there walls And roof, rough hewn and roughly thrown into A rude, windowless,...

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