OCTUBRE - Yes and not (Laura Riding)

Across a continent imaginary

Because it cannot be discovered now

Upon this fully apprehended planet—

No more applicants considered,

Alas, alas—

Ran an animal unzoological,

Without a fate, without a fact,

Its private history intact

Against the travesty

Of an anatomy.

Not visible not invisible,

Removed by dayless night,

Did it ever fly its ground

Out of fancy into light,

Into space to replace

Its unwritable decease?

Ah, the minutes twinkle in and out

And in and out come and go

One by one, none by none,

What we know, what we don’t know.