_______________________________________________________
there is no door, almost nothing, oblique figures
_______________________________________________________
beneath the columns of false marble
_______________________________________________________
returned, removed, moonless as an estimate, circle dancing
_______________________________________________________
like a mineral
_______________________________________________________
possibly a raised sanctuary
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
verse 7 informed my lingering curiosity
_______________________________________________________
pallor than grass
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
was not red (J’ai ta lettre datée “En Mer”)
_______________________________________________________
minor litanies
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
misshapen pearl, problem or promise
_______________________________________________________
walls & windows, crawling graveyards
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
Do not write this version.
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
The manuscript has been lying for centuries
_______________________________________________________
groaned or grunted. passed on
_______________________________________________________
was it Sappho or Telesilla
_______________________________________________________
the space between re- and in-
_______________________________________________________
a long-broken line.
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
is it or is it or not either
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
of some oblate vessel
_______________________________________________________
of some ageless stone
_______________________________________________________
alabaster or avenue
_______________________________________________________
pressed perhaps, or rather
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
This will be counting.
_______________________________________________________
This will be the blank new page
_______________________________________________________
(C should have been inserted above)
_______________________________________________________
compressed & chromatic, semi-tones & minor ninths, broken chords
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
polysemous, radiating. If there were
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
Two mirrors stare at each other
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
terse. (“a dactyl equals a spondee” or “one citadel equals two cities”)
_______________________________________________________
straight lines blocks boxes binds
_______________________________________________________
models originally real deathless
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
the principal protagonist was never painted
_______________________________________________________
forgotten or perhaps the opposite
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
reliquary jar in the shape of a jar
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
symphonies on a dead left hand
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
spent horses & hyphens
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
taut fibers
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
of nows millimetric measure reciprocal blues
_______________________________________________________
equivocal and faint
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
with no organs
_______________________________________________________
A child’s dream of a mouth—fugue fingers
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
vertical to the horizon
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
(someone was mumbling about 76 ways of looking at a black word)
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
of the no need of the moon to shine in it
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
It was not a story to pass on.
_______________________________________________________
mummified intact neutral tones in turn
_______________________________________________________
moving towards
_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________

Related poems

Related authors