Sunday, August 18, 2024

Free, until we die so soon



Why for the terrible

and loathsome burden

of  freedom        Gummed

movements in amber    are

rubbed upon a thick blue erection 

Stands a building         a dwelling-in that

is teaching us how to be  upright 

against a horizon within a ground


A blue    so blue     and a black

like the strings   unraveled

from a blanket’s weft re-homed in my mouth

and whistled over the jug of time

An imperfect rhythm     empty of space

these words lacking wave     are

loping into the breach on a stiff decline

Spilt drawers unzipped, upended


particles unpocketed and 

pushing paint into the corners

behind my teeth

Savoring the colors   my tongue darts

to track the guts of books

belayed round the split text-block 

The actual words in their thingness

hued and unbroken by prism


A piece of trapped lunch worried at

until freed    my voice finds a rush

over a swirl of color         while flattened paint

is dragged crying from the corner

onto a caboose of other end-things

With a perfect pulse and a shelf of fingers

in seance and glued tip to song tip

caught as catch can, that is


loping round a circle in decline

It steps upon itself       in overstuffed hymns

forgetting our births

in human ignorance 

This facticity of incompleteness 

a vector of things possible 

yet undone        and tasking

our tongues to find choice

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Free, until we die so soon

Why for the terrible and loathsome burden of  freedom        Gummed movements in amber    are rubbed upon a thick blue erection  Stand...