10.10
pale blue white haze in front of the vertical
plane of the ridge in window on left, sunlit
orange flower on green passion-vine covered
fence in right foreground
Secretary of Defense
unable to confirm the deaths of four UN workers
in Kabul, Taliban chiefs prepared to sacrifice
two million lives to maintain independence
silver-haired man in front of flesh-toned
rectangular plane on left, Debussy noting
movement of water across a plane of rocks
girl
in boat noticing a leaf "losing its sharpness,"
the sea "more important now than the shore"
line of sun reflecting across nearly motionless
water’s surface, moon in pale blue sky above it
10.11
angle of bird slanting from lower right corner
of vertical window on the left, the pale blue
white sky above the horizontal line of still
dark ridge behind it
Coleridge observing
"pillars of misty light" falling below sun
hidden by clouds, "great half moon setting
behind the mountain ridge"
man in post office
also reading Virginia Woolf, shaved-headed man
patching ding on nose of board
girl in boat
dipping her fingers into the water, thinking
"how we perish each alone"
lines of white
water moving across reef to the left of point,
man on a long white board slanting across light
blue green plane of wave breaking in left corner
10.12
horizontal pink white cloud in pale blue sky
above the still shadowed plane of the ridge,
bird calling in the window opposite unmade
yellow and blue bed
woman on the radio
claiming people in New York are planning to move
to Alaska, janitor in Tower One recalling people
jumping from windows
Pentagon spokesman noting
crosshair sights of missile trained on building,
woman pointing out that the military facilities
are located in heavily-populated heart of Kabul
Lily Briscoe still "looking out over the bay,"
thinking of the sea "without a stain on it"
white layer of foam on grey plane after wave
breaks, line of sun reflecting from left corner
10.13
brown bird perched on telephone wire slanting
from peak of roof to pole in upper left corner,
red finch landing on feeder in right foreground
man in blue shirt recalling his daughter’s walk-
on line in Days Of Our Lives, "never mind your
turn will come"
man in black shirt reading
shapes of blue and red and green and black
letters, "next it’s you Swainson’s thrush"
Lily Briscoe looking at the sea "which had
scarcely a stain on it," Mr. Ramsay sailing
further and further away
sunlight-speckled
line of swell moving in across the blue green
water’s plane, white curve of spray blown back
from the wave breaking into the left foreground
10.14
pink orange light in grey white square of sky
across from unmade yellow and blue bed, song
sparrow calling from the lower right corner
blond woman with white-haired baby walking
toward the green French door, noting the orange
rectangular shape on top of the yellow column
woman at end of table pointing out that M13
Galaxy has several hundred thousand million
stars, a pair of orange and black butterflies
circling above the purple flower
Lily Briscoe
remembering "that razor edge of balance between
two opposite forces," thinking about "some such
feeling of completeness"
white of jet’s trail
parallel to the horizon, pale blue sky above it