Michael Palmer Poems

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21.
Sonnet: Now I see them

Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.
There's noise and laughter. Somebody
mentions that hearing is silver
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22.
[To learn what to say to unlearn]

To learn what to say to unlearn
The order of islands here

The number of fingers
made from ideas
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23.
Tomb of Baudelaire

At the end of the bridge is a state of prison. Then
it goes back into my throat drying my throat.

Miracle of Sicilian weeping. Bleeds in one of his many
dreams.
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24.
Wheel

You can say the broken word but cannot speak
for it, can name a precise and particular shade
of blue if you can remember its name
(Woman of the South, New Lilac, Second Sky?)
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25.
The Classical Study

I asked the Master of Shadows
wherefore and wherefrom

but he said that art was short
and life was long
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26.
The Village of Reason

This is a glove
or a book from a book club

This is the sun
or a layer of mud
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27.
Construction of the Museum

In the hole we found beside the road
something would eventually go
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28.
As a Real House ( S a r a h ' s t h i r d s o n g )

"I said darkling and you said sparkling"
The play-house appears before us

as a real house in the dark
filled with people cut out
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29.
The White Notebook

But we have painted over the chalky folds,
the snow- and smoke-folds, so carefully,
so deftly that many (Did you bet
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30.
Stone

What of that wolfhound at full stride?
What of the woman in technical dress
and the amber eye that serves as feral guide
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