Thursday, 11 February 2021

#413 - the dolls, the boxes, whisper

 












12.ii.21

413

2.43

the dolls, the boxes, whisper

 

a prepositional

 

we are selves in the far

pure as any

subject to the clock’s cries

wielded

                                                                               

but free ourselves

in treetop song

 

between the world and where

trip the light

 

a whistle up

having to have been dreamt first

 

I hear my feet telling the path

I’ll be puppy

call me on, canter

 

who will to this tune

and skew

whistle the keys

 

one tries to get inside the page

turn one further opening

between in a thickness

further from day

a spread like the leaf sprung

petal fall, glimmer

 

make a maze of rain and wind tricks

music one note past the chord

far selves in a clock’s call

as we have said and so

 

open a door comes off in your hand

jazz in the pants, you

talk yourself over the border

 

a little heart to trick the time

pump doom in the tolling

 

print-through

lick tip

come kiss

the atavist requires

 

here’s the island in the journey

voyage call it

in the poem

in the story

 

a rattle in the road

and cabinet of flight

of sorrows

someone’s Ozymandias

 

in the book

in the conversation

sly knowing

for a contradiction

 

in a wink

the wicked way               

(most of these words will have to go)

 

whistle the keys

up dots and swallow

follow along with a bounce        

chase vine

 

here by tricks

and think it

by magic

tilt the maze and go

 

again inside

the boxes, dolls, the whisper

under the pants

more skin

 

here by the that of our teeth

native wit

by virtue of and what shall we call it?

means of a compromise

by the way

lose track

 

forgotten how we’ve come

 

no one can make a boat now

we are kept from beaches

have the sky still

to fashion wings

 

but hoof in mouth undone

 

where the ink runs out

this scratch

mad insect scramble

take windows for flight

 

gum so far in flowering

come into the lull

 

lose sight of self in words on the wall

 

most of it not quite written yet

all on the way

 

fall as the half way arrow

beginnings always lost

 

all along it was the other side you were working

 

an ear to the world gone by


 








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