shade
leaving and returning
iterated as echo or prayer
summoning from the shade
inarticulate benevolence
care enters the dismissal of care
drawn across the virtues of a stage.
3.
A rustling in the wings.
Restless mercurial
annoyance: nothing gets started.
You are waiting for me
but I do not appear, even in disguise.
The stage keeps unfolding its infinite domain.
At the final curtain, certain names
are cut into morphemes: no and win
fall from their origins in the adored dark.
Meanwhile atrocities are creased
into the percale
one by one, as if drones
left behind in a prohibited archive.
No one is writing this act.
Author! Author! calls the diminished crowd
wandering from the plummy sunset
caressing the hills. Backlit
hawks turn and turn above the scenery.
TO THE GIVEN
Dear instructor,
tonight I am
word poor and so unchained
and the world seated
could be
sensed partially
your back to it my looking away
trace of a cry in the air
accumulating from afar
a clarity of means
because
entrenched in beloved
semblance
to climb into the given as
music or the simplest conductâ
touching the threshold
migrating
serene as matter or
untouched
travelingâthe windâ
made only for space
perceived
as elegyâs long flight.
And so
darkening chanced over the neck
the shoulderâs ache
not referral to the outside
       having not yet aspired
darkening yet
the test or turn savored
the instance   leaning forward
to hear
a song of some duration
shelter of what is not said
chanced, here and there, over, darkeningâ
        splendid matter erased.
Could look through to the voiceâ
could look to find where the voiceâ
have you a word,
dear instructor, for this?
CLASSICAL AUGURY
City of words
rotunda and desert wanderer
     climb the absence
        follow this simple curve into the footprint
            or find indifference  a shelter
   as if lost within a cave
      confounded
           within the merry leafy compost
city of words
      ideal translation and misfortune
          to hesitate at the sequel to traipse backward onto the
path
       stunted underfoot to wait until the sugar dissolves
               until the ratâs nose upends a leaf
                    seeing as the windows are shut
             the heads are mounted on rose hips and thorns
                    prayer is spoken into the dark
city of words
bring the ruin to its proper place among nouns
open its mouth  peer into the rosy throat
           surely not a new day
         Â
her name is common
      she walks along the fibrous tissues and sticks
        recalls the fictive cause to save to go back to align
to dwell among first attributes of space
but what are these?
Hasty dim angels.
Are they above, below?
Beautiful plural sloping toward duration.
SOME ELEMENTS OF THE POEM
1.
Restive valley/lucidity non-Olympic
squalor of the mundane
ushered, foiled, never golden/blessings un-
told/missed under the standing muscular artifact
she invoked/did not remain the studio scold
lover in negative shield
fled volitionâs study if to lie down if to hear
eyes assaulted so to sting
mouth on top of mouth in the hinged
leaving and returning
iterated as echo or prayer
summoning from the shade
inarticulate benevolence
care enters the dismissal of care
drawn across the virtues of a stage.
3.
A rustling in the wings.
Restless mercurial
annoyance: nothing gets started.
You are waiting for me
but I do not appear, even in disguise.
The stage keeps unfolding its infinite domain.
At the final curtain, certain names
are cut into morphemes: no and win
fall from their origins in the adored dark.
Meanwhile atrocities are creased
into the percale
one by one, as if drones
left behind in a prohibited archive.
No one is writing this act.
Author! Author! calls the diminished crowd
wandering from the plummy sunset
caressing the hills. Backlit
hawks turn and turn above the scenery.
TO THE GIVEN
Dear instructor,
tonight I am
word poor and so unchained
and the world seated
could be
sensed partially
your back to it my looking away
trace of a cry in the air
accumulating from afar
a clarity of means
because
entrenched in beloved
semblance
to climb into the given as
music or the simplest conductâ
touching the threshold
migrating
serene as matter or
untouched
travelingâthe windâ
made only for space
perceived
as elegyâs long flight.
And so
darkening chanced over the neck
the shoulderâs ache
not referral to the outside
       having not yet aspired
darkening yet
the test or turn savored
the instance   leaning forward
to hear
a song of some duration
shelter of what is not said
chanced, here and there, over, darkeningâ
        splendid matter erased.
Could look through to the voiceâ
could look to find where the voiceâ
have you a word,
dear instructor, for this?
CLASSICAL AUGURY
City of words
rotunda and desert wanderer
     climb the absence
        follow this simple curve into the footprint
            or find indifference  a shelter
   as if lost within a cave
      confounded
           within the merry leafy compost
city of words
      ideal translation and misfortune
          to hesitate at the sequel to traipse backward onto the
path
       stunted underfoot to wait until the sugar dissolves
               until the ratâs nose upends a leaf
                    seeing as the windows are shut
             the heads are mounted on rose hips and thorns
                    prayer is spoken into the dark
city of words
bring the ruin to its proper place among nouns
open its mouth  peer into the rosy throat
           surely not a new day
         Â
her name is common
      she walks along the fibrous tissues and sticks
        recalls the fictive cause to save to go back to align
to dwell among first attributes of space
but what are these?
Hasty dim angels.
Are they above, below?
Beautiful plural sloping toward duration.
SOME ELEMENTS OF THE POEM
1.
Restive valley/lucidity non-Olympic
squalor of the mundane
ushered, foiled, never golden/blessings un-
told/missed under the standing muscular artifact
she invoked/did not remain the studio scold
lover in negative shield
fled volitionâs study if to lie down if to hear
eyes assaulted so to sting
mouth on top of mouth in the hinged
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