[Grayscale breath on a fluid...]
Grayscale breath on a fluid
field, with lo-fi
rainpatter—petrol blue—,
a 60-watt sun uns
-crewed from the
woebegone sky: rip-
rap & coal slurries,
dragline & loess, what phosphor
-us is a semaphore
for, silklike
in its acoustic shadows
louver away, or stay
when I move:
figures astray from the mercury
dark—shatterproofless,
shutterproofless,
image noise
stressing each contour to
strass—
as if the margins were
swarming with
centers, or cinders
—"Ecchoes
to the Eye" —
or Cinderella's slipper
blown of poly-
vinyl butyral
& laminated glass
Copyright Credit: Andrew Zawacki, "[Grayscale breath on a fluid...]” from Video Tape. Copyright © 2013 by Andrew Zawacki. Reprinted by permission of Counterpath Press.
Source: Video Tape (Counterpath Press, 2013)