Brett Price

 

BLINDS

THE SEA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BLINDS

 

 

Several different kinds of same light come streaming and thank the blinds

 

for my habit today a curiosity for knowledge of nuts and bolts which came as the preface

 

to a dream and sticks to some learned place I forget or hides in the result I beg

 

histories in lung shaped motifs of air come and go but A Thing and its Ghost is

 

now Matt Evan and Jane IÕm afraid IÕm an idiot and none of you told me how

 

you must know away you are dear near dearer one canÕt forget how good not to ache

 

of a tendency to transform the variety of thems into sketches my friends

 

applaud for a brave true gesture however whatÕs the meaning of I thems my

 

where the sound of the tear in real airs so many questions all the same pose

 

a new activity to unlearn beginnings and endings or at least to re-conceive

 

the various workings of walls here I am at 2:51 pm here you are but when

 

then now surely I is someone else but when I is elsewhere then where am I now

 

I am here again at 3:07 pm with a headache and happy to know for sure

 

the poemÕs no special place but often a way for us to hurray to break

 

up on the page as the blinds leave lines of light on the floor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE SEA

 

I run the gamut of wows and damns and hand-shake

misty from head to head.  Twirl, shift, and need you.

The map makes the landscape. You are here: 

 

Intricate island vessel            What sea?

 

            rust of                          documents burst their pixels

     and recollect us        no obligation, but chance

 

to stretch the million possible strings from point to point

call to mind            summon up             think of

 

you me she he          we      here is ours coil            now spring

new seasons            I, in fluorescent light, glee to be

dancing          bowing tight strings to singing

 

god knows what            My guest, you are a god-like

installation of relentless resource            come

driving ambulance and make me well-

 

mannered or broken further if you please,

but please please.  I orbit and trail am

both sail and jiggly-rigged trajector,

but not without out you

 

watch me lose speed then, now, blow

your curatorial intelligence through and through

IÕll catch, I promise, deal?  What about songs?

 

IÕm B to the R to the E double T

then P to the R to the I—C—E

 

Then out,                                              then waves 

The wind slows its hyper.  I want to be sweet.

Let me build it:

 

The Sea