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Into the World


             Toward the sun
             The hanging fruit
             At midnight grows.

            This purely imagistic piece gets an added twist from the tension
        between the mystical mood gained on first impression and the later
        intellectual  realization  of  the  trivial  tautology  involved.  The
        mysterious  aspect  comes  from  the  astronomically-disorienting
        juxtaposition of “sun” and “midnight,” and the ominous sound of
        “hanging.” Since our unconscious idea of arboreal growth is toward
        the  sun  during  the  day,  we  are  well  set-up  for  the  surprise  of  a
        strictly factual description of that process at night. The three lines
        can go in any order; Gluckman may have shuffled them a few times,
        this one struck him as best.























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