2. A Summer’s Night’s Revival

arrested auto | biography

the | word you

wrote | not rote

particularities of | absence

such as | away

lost | verboten | not

the twingularities | of

being | away from

how you | not

you | would be

after | a span

of time | unremembered

piquance | of tongue

listing toward | away

the slosh | of

the wash | away

vocabules encountered | externally

O | I | a

person of | considerable

wait | that’s not

 

it | the sparrow

flies straight | off

often | in movies

where protagonists | huddle

around | warm plots

the story | surprises

endings do | not

articulations without | bending

away | thus toward

toward | thus pushing

thrusting | fussing with

having | had been

has had | been

before the | troubles

the wholes | in

a story | how

they | let you

see into | its

dark recesses | of

 

a time | long

ago | a word

left to | rot

in | the sun

days after | noon

rusted wheels | a

burrow | for groundhog

the hissing | through

teeth | it says

you go | away

you | go away

away you | go

it | is like

a song | forgotten

after memorization | of

thus lost | but

inherent | to the

person | left forgetting

the weight | of

forgetting | it all