Wednesday, April 06, 2016

Deciphering These Snow-Ridden Thoughts


Certainly this able-bodied day
Fills up the page
Distance always occurs
Where light comes to rest
Imagine how to write it
The ill-fated sentence of a still-
Born affection squeezed between
Parentheses O demonstrative act
Of love be adorned and so forth
Be but some tender estrangement
Ceaselessly deferred and given
To simplicity given to simple words
Maybe too a common prayer
Or a double dash why not--
I haven’t had a hair cut in weeks
I haven’t even cut and cleaned
This intractability of fragments
A necessary return to distance
A space where I might find this
Inscribed date happening in silence
A precise imprint slowly forming
Right here on the very spot
Imagine a dome of cavernous air
Imagine!
Phosphorescent volumes of thought
Moons among demolished moons


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