gathering eyes all his life /
filling up pockets of air under the boat /
with grain counts on the beach /
names for every color of insect /
recordings of the sound clipping nails in Algiers /
numbering the rings of spruce trees before their cut down /
an eye for every occasion perched on his shoulder /
trained to comment after the guests revert /
the collection of eyes, uninheritable /
perhaps as bread crumbs back from hades /
seeing-eye doggerel lighting the way /
with unstained whites around pupils /
staring down into all continents for the lowest reading light
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