The Fire

The matrices below are transcribed from Robert Duncan's "The Fire Passages 13" from Bending the Bow

jump	stone	hand	leaf	shadow	sun
day	plash	coin	light	downstream	fish
first	loosen	under	boat	harbor	circle
old	earth	bronze	dark	wall	waver
new	smell	purl	close	wet	green
now	rise	foot	warm	hold	cool

blood	disk
horizon	flame

The poem ends with the initial matrix with some of the elements displaced.
The "blood;disk//horizon;flame" matrix is not repeated.

cool	green	waver	circle	fish	sun
hold	wet	wall	harbor	downstream	shadow
warm	close	dark	boat	light	leaf
foot	purl	bronze	under	coin	hand
rise	smell	earth	loosen	plash	stone
now	new	old	first	day	jump

Adding a bit of colour, we can highlight the axis of translation.

cool	green	waver	circle	fish	sun
hold	wet	wall	harbor	downstream	shadow
warm	close	dark	boat	light	leaf
foot	purl	bronze	under	coin	hand
rise	smell	earth	loosen	plash	stone
now	new	old	first	day	jump

A reiterative "purl" reading along the axis:

sun downstream fish shadow
boat bronze dark under
smell now rise new

Now punctuated:

sun:   downstream fish shadow
boat bronze:   dark under
smell now rise:   new

A hypertextual reading of Bending the Bow would ask about

sun/son and the Christ figure's association with fish (see Passages 8)
the Anglo-Saxon influences; kennings & caesura (Passages 2 & Passages 15)
old language (see Passages 13 "Do you know the old language?/I do not know the old language."); child talk (see Passages 6 [which also inscribes a double delta -- Miller's "Delta of Venus" & the Greek letter, scientific symbol for change of state])

A hypertextual re-reading of Bending the Bow would ask about

the purl as chi turned alpha

jump	stone	hand	leaf	shadow	sun
day	plash	coin	light	downstream	fish
first	loosen	under	boat	harbor	circle
old	earth	bronze	dark	wall	waver
new	smell	purl	close	wet	green
now	rise	foot	warm	hold	cool

Hints of Rimbaud? Well, Passages 12 ends with a quotation from Rimbaud's Illuminations from the poem "Enfance"

Je vois longtemps la mélancolique lessive d'ors [sic] du couchant.

1	2	3
4	5	6
7	8	9

9	8	7
6	5	4
3	2	1

1	2
3	4

4	3
2	1

CLOCKWISE 123				978 COUNTERWISE
jump	leaf	old	dark	cool	foot	circle	under
stone	shadow	earth	wall	hold	rise	harbor	loosen
hand	sun	bronze	waver	warm	now	boat	first
day	light	new	close	green	purl	fish	coin
plash	downstream	smell	wet	wet	smell	downstream	plash
coin	fish	purl	green	close	new	light	day
first	boat	now	warm	cool	foot	circle	under
lossen	harbor	rise	hold	wall	earth	shadow	stone
under	circle	foot	cool	dark	old	leaf	jump