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A Low Bank of Cloud
But for a low bank of cloud,
clear morning, empty sky.
The bright band of light beneath its gray,
I thought was open distance, but it’s ice
that’s raised the lake above the lip of blue lake
and spilled it further out than that horizon
along the sky
and floods the clouds..
Seeing: this
says not to trust blue line as terminus. –
But it’s simply the meniscus
a measure of how close
the eye can be to filled
with seeing as with this you see it widen
horizon like a graduated cylinder’s
circumference, too, increased in which the
surface drops
the more seeing is added..
I seem to be emptying of time
the more time I put in,
and see like a man with weakened eyes enough
to face to face up to the sight’s field expanded
to insight. The lake can
curl up like a map for poems to have
these likenesses to graph,
then come un-scrolled from semblance back
to just this lake. Water
cities are led to layout
beside. But it is never stillness;
always the restoration
from ice, from cloud, restoration to clear
liquid (as is most of our body)
that if written with, disappears.
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Age Acquired
Acrophobia: Comedic Perspective
Still thinking down at ground level,
never having lived a floor this high before,
a peripheral glimpse off the fifteenth floor –
and I thought the lake, its green light the sun
angles from it sometimes, had come ashore
and the white sails on it,
these moved as if nothing under them
these were gulls in their multiple sea
levels they can tack across the tops of trees
like sailing and pull the lake over on you
trick, make parks, surrounding the cliff
apartments, that far below deepen
farther oceanic
perspective ‘til drawing
the straight line,
I catch on to the joke of these
stories.
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Inability to maintain tension and make minute correction
in the muscles that hold the body balance steady
so
Once, you felt poise in the body on the edge
Now your autonomic grabs the danger
by your testicles
Age ashamed to mention the 18,000 feet
within earshot of his cremaster’s freezing
memory denies he ever climbed.
Hit
Comes that snap
in acceleration, day yanking,
that really cracks your neck,
taking off your head
You land into
a standing on marbles balance,
the body adjustment’s rapidity
is the rhythm
of things & thought and
staying on your feet
The jerk lock
robotic
look that you make flow
breakdance is the real choreography
of it the manic switch hit
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Reductio ad
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A dull growl of shovels jabbed at by snow
as if the mimicking white means also
to throw the shovelers on their backs out on the ground
bitten in the chest. Dogs – as silence is to sound –
suddenly on the edge of the clearing.
Noise tries to cover noise in noise not to be/
be heard. And even silence must dig
to hear that distinct voice of noise not to be still
with.
– Those proofs that are dismissed mean to
intimidate the thought
suddenly on the edge of clearing.
The question part to the missed answer has to suffer
more question taken prisoner from right for wrong.
Answer
takes over as question/’s place. Where differing is
clouded out,
where answer gets questioned through is
suddenly clearing –
A question gets over the answer and moves
on if it works to better work. The answers fight.
To pass beyond a point where that which is passed
through
can have an effect upon is
at this point
to clear
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A dull growl of shovels jabbed at by snow
as if the mimicking white means also
to throw the shovelers on their backs out on the ground
bitten in the chest.
Noise tries to cover noise in noise not to be/
be heard. And even silence must dig
to hear that distinct voice
of noise not to be still with.
The question part to the missed answer has to suffer
more question hostaged from right for wrong. Answer
takes over in question/’s place.
A question gets over the answer and moves
on if it works to better work. The
answers fight.
Like dogs.
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Dogs – as silence is to sound –
suddenly on the edge of the clearing.
– Those proofs that are dismissed mean to intimidate
the thought
suddenly on the edge of clearing.
Where differing is clouded out,
where answer gets questioned through as
is
suddenly clearing –
The answers fight.
To pass beyond a point where
that which is passed through
can have an effect upon is
at this point
to clear
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