XLVIII
A strong team is at work
condemning words or
moving slowly
breath not guaranteed
imperial embargo
where will you go
without a leg to stand on
an arm to turn the page
resist the urge to put
the eyes back in their place
its easier this way to
mute the theremin
in the land of the blind
the one eyed man is king
for a day or a prophet
events and arguments
centuries long
epoch and holding patterns
weshallnotbudge
please send back our fathers’
hands to do the work here
he rubs his [stumped] wrists together
saying that it will take a long time to outgrow this
in the land of the magical soldier
children wear green
and a gun for all of them
here as in other places
where we read the sea
a language evolved
collapsing glyphs
brick and a mortar cipher
babbled back
mouth misgivings
chew on the meaning
he means this can be
a meditation on something
distance from epicenter
holds themweusall
in an open door
we step in to step out
one step at a time
the last second
on a twenty four hour road
split the lanes congenially
parties pose a question
preferably in autumn
the season isn’t right
to uproot the known
can’t seem to make
the matter heard
to more than one dim ear
hearing this all again
hones the signal into
adjoining cascades
happenstance we trauma
“Those who bloodied this [holy day]
and massacred innocent people
will account for it in both worlds…
where we can see another
sunset in the desert escape
jungles more recently
spin an edelweiss wisdom
represents the fluid nature
a priori to contrafact while
factotum holds the keys
inconspicuously aberrant
symposiums held here
on the subject of repatriation
where we meet in bones
they lie them bones
and the bone song beatitude
where will the language
of the these bones
meet in the morning
a living slumber likened
to the most invigorated of us
where they lay them bones to rest
having fallen here or there — or perhaps
nowhere is as good a place
where the argument
grows from the mouth
those fallen: those sought
a simple name as idea
becomes a proper noun
to pronounce this place
as readied for a visit
where grief is a dog
beneath the porch
who knows your name
speaks it simply
in understanding
a pocket full of words
a handful of recriminations
that smell faintly
how you remember
the sea when arriving
two by two between two
beings and the lost tribe
we remember when
a look through the eyes
remains a gaze fixated
a self-referential-rift
how do you want me to see
you in the after light
put out of place and put out
the lighted shadow
impervious dissonance
demands a demonstration
we’ve a silly habit forming
maintenance or resembling
a time before the here
and now we roll it all back
remunerations for success
you victorious laurel
wreath and wrap judgments
into a neat apologia
for a time before
the event that stopped
our keystroke affair
when we spelled
the name of our heir
in spite of our history
or how to slow the wailing
violin in a fog of minor notes
we cross toward one
exclusive path or another
road unrushed remains
the ideal tact here
whispers all but the sun
diffusing first the light
diffusing the first light
each other’s diffusion
possibly a similitude
or a prose kinema
can never be denied
what you’ve seen
what you’ve had
who you’ve laid
bare an awful truth
the experience dispute
no-man-can nomenclature
those we call unnamed
father the prototype of disaster
“for our will is strong…
framed in these terms
full of throttle and choke
on pedestrian terms
like we a people
the color of their people
peopled the crater
where people make it
their business to unwind
creation from a waxen paste
for the sake of posterity
measure the distance
from stem to stern
chin to chest
if you imply polemics
exploitation factors out
the message in uhf
we message or must make
the room for messages
a full ramshackle on the back
where the walls seem
to meet the joint
and strangely make
the means with which
to write the book and
brace the spine with bone
