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Elementals
With a Suggestion
It's a wild idea to live in a symbolic
red box but
then I'd have to live there when the ideal
presented
& the represented is opaque at best
A part of the fence is appropriated as drawing
board
differences gone over again as a new survey
In the half-forgotten dream narrative somewhere
between
defense & hagiography is space to make something
up a
way to rhyme the hollow of a cheek w/
that
of a hill a way to let scar wire
dam
wound
die of border metaphor exhaustion
When
mood goes blue no kidding you'd better swim in it
slow floats apart spun in circles adrift
a live feed & the occasional clank of bones is
All it takes is applying water to water to make
the disappearing painting which in an end is probably
for
the best Scrutiny
lies somewhere between beach
combing & scatology all this registering of perception
the
memory can be dissolved under the watchfulness of
it
won't smoothed & smudged as the shadow pools are
There
are days when yellow really does change the world
Meeting like this is conspiracy to commit to
something
long on place short on sightedness
shadowy
sketches of self on the lam from the self
find
a folder under the arm
Papier mache sculptures
burn in the street but sight just wasn't the way
I ever
walked so mediated & deferred In the dark
there between grin & grimace the protagonist is
floating
around near the center of the page w/ no
background
from the corner comes a poem or a lantern
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