STICK FIGURE
the world that I shall speak
- Homer: The Odyssey, Book XX
what is a body for if not to catch
the sediment
that is light? on the horizon
God’s smudge
accept the world
you judge, otherwise it will judge you
unfit
an empty field is filled
with thistledown – that sounds profound
what does it mean?
perhaps you need to be the West Wind
understand the cult of the goddess
how the purple flower shivers
how words drift off
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language is your parachute
into the abyss of experience, it has to
open, there is no reserve
between
the poem goes between
an act of speech, listen
a cloud asleep on the lake
your breath on a mirror
there, the stick
figure
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/ go lightly, an arrow travels farther than a spear
and falls on your man, who falls
forward, always forward /
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the wild blue zigzag
cotton frock border
empty sky shadowles
how
the light is wet here
& the dark forever
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