54. Couplets
.
It begins
with the smallest
thoughts
submergent
parts
& partitions
temblors
of the body
directives
in darkness
flashing of lights
where there are none
turbid northern
night
the distinction between
heat and humid
leaves in
a handful
a book
of trees
orientation then
ratiocination
what the blood
means when
the blood
won’t move
or moves
too much
heart
of dark
lakelight
evening’s
stormcloud dragging
its black drape of rain
the sound
of sorrow
dog’s yawn
more smell than sound
breath taken
at first waking
breath given
before sleeping
the sound it is given
is of the voice or if
caution
before oration
reading the
veins of it
and raining
in black drops
a night like
tomorrow
according to
the best practices of
a whiff
then a wiggle
turn and burn
and vision
world and self
into salt
delectable to
the tongue as sound
texture
to the touch
back bending
away
soles of the feet
don’t survive the body
a flicker
a flutter
at the last point possible
but without the purchase of success
plunge into
plunge out of
in about at
from around for
tincture
of trickle or tickle
the final deliquescence
of the body
what eradicates
the past
eradicates
the future
it ends
with the largest
thoughts
emergent
:
It begins
with the smallest
thoughts
submergent
parts
& partitions
temblors
of the body
directives
in darkness
flashing of lights
where there are none
turbid northern
night
the distinction between
heat and humid
leaves in
a handful
a book
of trees
orientation then
ratiocination
what the blood
means when
the blood
won’t move
or moves
too much
heart
of dark
lakelight
evening’s
stormcloud dragging
its black drape of rain
the sound
of sorrow
dog’s yawn
more smell than sound
breath taken
at first waking
breath given
before sleeping
the sound it is given
is of the voice or if
caution
before oration
reading the
veins of it
and raining
in black drops
a night like
tomorrow
according to
the best practices of
a whiff
then a wiggle
turn and burn
and vision
world and self
into salt
delectable to
the tongue as sound
texture
to the touch
back bending
away
soles of the feet
don’t survive the body
a flicker
a flutter
at the last point possible
but without the purchase of success
plunge into
plunge out of
in about at
from around for
tincture
of trickle or tickle
the final deliquescence
of the body
what eradicates
the past
eradicates
the future
it ends
with the largest
thoughts
emergent
:
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