from Writing Is an Aid to Memory: 17.
By Lyn Hejinian
the bird carries its peck up the branch
or more
of the which pretty little flower
ear dozen
study forces the day upright
pretty flower to protect the eye in sunshine
with a white is made tall in warm
stalks
the dead are used over
the major insects was that
tile the rent become mortgage money
fortress replaced by a more natural forest
tints the tall flowers
leap the embarrassment of a great subject
high in my own eyes hanging over the day
from this aviation is clumsy
or even desirable diction
nook soaring when the moon is how romantic
music pera slid clear
shadow when omitted is obviously wrong
or no
lighting by trees is beautiful
Copyright Credit: Lyn Hejinian, “#17” from Writing Is an Aid to Memory. Copyright © 1996 by Lyn Hejinian. Reprinted with the permission of Green Integer Books, www.greeninteger.com.
Source: Writing Is an Aid to Memory (Sun & Moon Press, 1996)