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Monday, November 19, 2012

The String Section

I am the servant of a past that
has yet to catch up with me
A thousand books & the sand gravel combed into
wave patterns between stones
 
Something I heard about Japanese grammar?
 
the spacing itself is persuasive enough
 
anybody’s problem

(iron fish.  whalebone hammer.
Thomas Pynchon.  a kind of bird.)

Reading by the light of the plasma screen
doesn’t rule out candles
 
Some Words For Joanne Elizabeth Kyger:
feathers         clench            torrential
baleen            shreds            encumber
crepuscular Vermeer albacore bottlecaps
antediluvian puddles                     
(poodles?)
 
flesh on the bone
water on the brain
 
                                         Nov. 19, 2012
                                         JEK’s birthday