Here is another, in the same vein, from near the end of Forth of July (unfortunately the formatting at this blog doesn't seem to allow for the extra spacing between some words, which is in the original):
IV.2
The crane bone flute of Omegal
Two-One-Zero in the zero zone of
Cassiopeia drifted off
the ink path (Andean, original
and vernal victory for the rusted
oarsmen-thieves out of Kiev
composting filtered hive-
head of scythe-grass-thundered
crust of prairie) a black-white
ms. up Nile and down a Pappy
Rus man lost at (nightmare) sea
a-mingling trans-plutonian planet
with a Sophie light fallen
Julian year's allowable error
into wheat your collimator
of quasi-uniform time meridian
transit dark-muttering and
eruptive star with secular stability
a photometric standard Mira Ceti
early type Trapezium guide star end-
running now a high velocity shooting
star P Cygni growing orange from Umbriel
meniscus transit's photographic zenith well
or true noon Triton tropopause a nautical ping-
twilight out of Blackstone comes
a retrograde vernier worm-wheeling line
wing a mourning J Septimanian Venusian
fluted steep sleep to deep life-forms (foaming
5.22.2000
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