Textile 12

A path formatted. A chapter.
                                                      "There cannot be a chapter formatted differently,"

she said, "like a sore thumb."
                                            "A chapter formatted differently from these is not a sore thumb,"

I said, "but an opposable thumb, an opposable thumb with its own instrumentality."
                                                                                                                                                        A train

". . hear that train strumming . . ."
                                                                 "without the doubt of a shadow"

Agora shadowless and "shadowless"
                                                                   path.

Which?
                 "In recent years he has researched the share"

a path formatted across a wave.
                                                           There cannot be a wave formatted otherwise

she said, like a wheel. 
                                            A wave in syntax such as that is no sore wheel,

I said, but a solemn wheel (no one-sided wheel, I said, a level) with its own instrumentality.
                                                                                                                                                         A door

"folded like a sheet of paper . . ."
                                                          "You were the most beautiful of them all."

"Now I begin to paint shadows in."
                                                             Out-of-print—

which?
              In recent years he has researched the interval

which?
              In recent years he has researched the inconvenience

a path formatted across hot water.
                                                             There cannot be hot water formatted symptomatically,

she said, like fumes. 

Copyright Credit: Marjorie Welish, "Textile 12" from Word Group. Copyright © 2004 by Marjorie Welish.  Reprinted by permission of Coffee House Press.