Appendices

III. Earliest Recorded Northern Explorers: The Greeks and the Vikings
Appendices
And beyond, the same sound of bees
This drizzling three-day January thaw,
Stars, the last day, endless and centerless,
they sit with their wives all day in the sun,
Through the back of the picture at the patch of white
Columbuses or Gamas, ever pass,
V. The Dutch in the Arctic
VII. Hudson and His Strait; Baffin and His Bay
The snowflakes are swirling, blotting out
Is dumb; he is the mute white stony shape
And Mère Chose’s square of world, even as they
Against this sky no longer of our world.
Again awaken from your being gone to find
The mortal architect had brought to life,
My only thought is for what has
Deep in the fog that quenches every ray,
Silent patch of ultimate paint. You are