Under the dim grey sky of an early evening
in September, that mountain sky
when air rests across the surface of the world
and strays on the body like cold,
...
You enter the suburbs,
drive down through the fair blue distance
swelling at the road's end,
the luminous window
...
When you walk out
into the derangement of earliest morning,
too early, for the stars
still examine you and trees, unencumbered
...
The world does not know it offers nothing.
I am meant to see a white shirt,
whale bone buttons flashing under lights,
the advice of a lissom woman
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Foam Days
Waves topple
and roll over, spray may
affect visibility
...
Lately, what have you, my arrogance, been writing
in The Pieces, the sense of you in That Library on the shore one of me
let's say
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The day's evil ends, county of soft air and airport bars
where dog's hair slogs out the horoscope
floats atween logic
nor the Other View
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All academics are hopeless
is a line I remember from Ed Dorn's
‘The Land Below'. It synchs neatly
...
i.
The dream begins here
on a Good Day, where light
whittles up hands' gold
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The lines line up & nothing happens.
What was that about ‘affect', your attitude detached
but still in the black?
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