Le Nombre Des Ombres
By Andrew Joron
The faster I travel
the slower the world dies
Inside the head of a flower
The sun’s
a swinging pendulum
—all Radiance is progress
Of a pre-existent stillness
Stone, inspired
To fluency
curves thought
toward the drinking of Its shadow
grail: grille: grid
The lines recursive to impalement
one point alone
sings cumulative, crowding negativity
My apparitions
distorted by star-tides
Fail to approximate zero
Where sensation’s tip
Crumbles to ash
Another
Radio-profile turns, edged with dark cries
objects unfounded
of medieval prophecy
The heavens too grow cold
Copyright Credit: Andrew Joron, "Le Nombre Des Ombres" from Trance Archive, City Lights Spotlight No. 3. Copyright © 2010 by Andrew Joron. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.
Source: Trance Archive (City Lights Books, 2010)