You take a kitchen-mallet
and a knife
and hit
the right spot, so it doesn't jerk, for
...
Fish
always accurately know where to move and when,
and likewise
birds have an accurate built-in time sense
...
Given an old woman and given a barrow.
I.e. the system old woman O and barrow B.
The system is moving from the paved yard Y to the corner C,
from the corner C to the Stone S, from the stone S
...
To think I might have been dead,
he said to himself, ashamed, as if this were
a curse of the heart, raising a bundle of bones
...
On the express train to Vienna
she writes in her diary
notes about Rome and Naples.
...
The bird had come to the very end of its song
and the tree was dissolving under its claws.
...
Wings
We have
a microsopic anatomy
of the whale
this
gives
Man
assurance
William Carlos Williams
We have
a map of the universe
for microbes,
we have
a map of a microbe
for the universe.
we have
a Grand Master of chess
made of electronic circuits.
But above all
we have
the ability
to sort peas,
to cup water in our hands,
to seek
the right screw
under the sofa
for hours
This
gives us
wings.