Thursday, 31 December 2020

#367 - book of blank pages





 

1.i.21

367

2.1

book of blank pages

 

into which everything disappears

so that these words become secret

 

dust in the cracks

a house is still sleeping

 

it’s all night writing

and morning won’t be seen again

 

opposite of invisible ink

 

everyone goes there

 

sometimes see print through

chase ghosts

 

lost bible – of cross writing

nothing if not prophetic

 

the future is written

in a book of blank pages

 

hours, days of it

close study

years beyond me lie here too

 

put it down to the rain

an opening

inkwash

but every sky’s the same

 

so much now

is our own making

 

this is the book of the lost

 

blank where the stylus

now slurry

and you’re in the mirror again

between rivers

 

time was and whom the war had

so much of me in these forevers

 

a bookmark for a hair

and all the answered, measured, told

were us once

 

peer deep into the blanks of

a word becomes another

a wrestle to fate

my privilege

 

and peering out as well

all those who have been hidden

they bubble up now in the book

it may boil

come to fire

 

spread and seep

lie waiting

 

so any have tried to make a mark

but this is a book of blank pages

 

what you have once desired now vanished

all lost to the book

the gone are

 

kings, judges decreed

words hidden under

pillow for dreams

 

book of forgetting

or some prayer

our own skins break

some to earth inscribed

 

so many things continue unread

 

the garden grows over with light

 

notes towards the plan

will vanish as the book appears

 

a library in the garden

some kind of music for the glue

turn pages

but no one can say now

 

in the fast approaching

 

that baby in the cloud of talc

arms spastic

head unlettered

yearning to breathe free

 

 

 

 

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42

 

in a firstness

the od aches resume

as if without a pause

 

here we all are

graphs and charts

surfeit of fact

 

no one knows how

 

the why is further off yet

then there’s a why within

how do we have such a question

 

sacred to itself

no one will ever understand?

and that’s as far as we know



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