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.