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(a
saying, for)
risk
nothing risk
say nothing risk
nothing say nothing risk
permanence:
in aside to such moment
no clean river availing no sky if blue no tree if leaved no dirt
unsoiled no
hill if green no moon no stars if wished upon no structure arcing if
dreamt no lot left vacant no nothing
wanting nothing to act on no
outside, there, no
signs, here, no ecological
nothing, no this
hence, hence no nothing
needless
to say
that is, nor even that
then, nothing not
needy, needing
no aside from this moment, no
entirety appeased, no
nothing not to do turned over and
over and
over and
over, unprovisionally
without provision
to seek and to seek
justification
in seeking
say "permanence"
say "risk" if altered,
tentative, as
from above
say "you"
say
love
and then
no one but where
no that nor this
nor one but
yes, no one but
you
and then
without firmament,
ample
nor heaven solvent, sent
nor set to sample, sampling
your way, you
to read nor words there, then
nor write here, hence
no moment
whence, if only for
love
if only for love
to take
or love to give, perpetually
from its example.
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Joe Amato is the author of four books: Symptoms
of a Finer Age (Viet Nam Generation, 1994),
Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self (SUNY Press, 1997),
Under Virga (forthcoming from Chax Press later
this year) and Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks
for a Culture on the Blink (forthcoming from University
of Iowa Press in 2006). Chapters of his memoir-in-progress,
No Outlet: An Engineer in the Works, have been
published in The Iowa Review, Square One, and
Voices in Italian Americana. He teaches writing and
literature at Illinois State University and has just
finished a novel, Big Man with a Shovel.
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