PAX
everything else is a
lie
but for this I would
lie down
to pause
in un-fluxed topos
no
but the crux
in counterpulse
in xxx
as the arc
after
(ruin)
(rain)
______
preludes
the split
and peeling off
say what you dream
I dream that you are broken and I feed
and bathe you like a
child
what other reason is
there to persist
it brightens and it
fades
the world outside
this house
______
I am
I am
I am
pnuema mute origin
insensate puff of breath
those first birds
were birthed
viscous & moist
from the black egg
I squatted down
and laid
______
now it the word for it
descends
(the disc resembling
the sun
dim Helios tripping down
the helix of the
spiral stair
I am there
splayed
in ambiguous intimacy
with myself
arrested
in this minute fire
all this
mundane abundance
now my clothes do not
love me back
nor my shoes
embrace me
______
to begin what has
begun again
suddenly men appear and absolutely nothing
happens
except that something is and becomes was
the men in fireproof
suits
the men running toward
the pier
the men afloat
aloft
hoisting the flags and
dancing on the moon
amid the absurd
pyrotechnics of the stars
no sleight of
hand as sudden clouds
in cloudless
skies in love’s
flat-footed evocation
do you approach
recede
the battering tide
______
something happens
something is happening
to me
something has interrupted
something else someone
turns to look
over their shoulder
there is nothing there
begin again
begin with nothing with the man falling the man flung
upward
begin with the knees
these hours this hour
I will not repeat I will not
reappear
this peculiar hour
this aluminum harbor