This poem is taken from PN Review 43, Volume 11 Number 5, May - June 1985.
Nonpareil
A thousand, ten thousand
years take you back
beyond the invincible wheat,
but not to another such
rarity, the pure note
matchless as a blue
pearl, or any raindrop:
integral
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