14. In 3rds & 4ths

juniper | in the sense of hope extinguished in the interest of passion

coriander | in the sense of teeth cracking open a small shell for a burst of salt

cardamom | in the sense of the sense of their being something within you must never reveal

lavender | in the sense of the flower holding the resin of the sun

cloves | in the sense of sweet not being sweet

sentences written on the street in chalk | the high-stepping horse | tail in a swoop at the end

the whisper | you can only yell for it to be seen

an idea about how the word reckons | and how you will reckon the word

gestures of the hands | the tails of birds in expressive debut

expressions of severe doubt | at the beginning of the conversation about your own death

voice in the shape of the body of the tongue | moving and burrowing

eye as the flit as a flirt | in the way it sees as it is seen

hands as the power of making | one with the other | complex and given to prestidigitation        

tongue as the voice of the body | pretender to dethrone | hopeless with action

nose that brings in without letter out | a small petal of a sense sweeping it all in

❦ | not heart | but leaf | but cordate leaf | and we pause at the border of being

☛ | a fist of direction | insight leading to incite | yet a finger open

† | to the heart | a notation of a note | the sound of the silence around a sound

& | the occupation of addition sans summation | how you have come to this place and will leave

¶ | we leave this place for now

 

ink as it seeps into fibers | as it disrupts the bareness

paper as it accepts the color | a creates a space for medication

page as it allows one face to watch | followed by multiplicities over again

book as it holds the pages in place | e pluribus unum | thus we have a whole

library as it opens the word | and allows the breath of the earth into our bodies

vestige | for it must

remainder | as we remember

relict | who of his was | enduring

fragment | to structure from

remnant | the song at the end

letter | as the smallest of uniqueness

word | as a congregation of tininesses

sentence | for it is the run of words

paragraph | perceived as the run of running words

chapter | a part that forms a whole

whispers for which the voice | barely gathers

chatter in a manner akin | to wandering

talking in the fashion of a deep | falsetto

yelling for one has to be heard | full

screaming for the sound in need | exceeds the rest

 

apple | for it is the first and forbidden fruit

pear | for it arouse with its shape and nose

crabapple | for it is sour enough to please

medlar | because the bletting affords us time

rosehip | for she opens by surprise

idea is the sense of | the thing thought

impression | how the person of a body forms |a shape within us

notion | the bare memory of a forgotten invention

desire | the pleasure of the | mind before the body

certainty | all allowed one to make an error

fingers for counting away | the time that washes

arms being the extension of the body | from its center

knees for to genuflect in graceful protect

feet to move the body backwards between space

body for to be a reminder of the self | in space

here | as the place I am

there | as the sense you have of placement

now | the time in your past I experience

then | the time in your future I know

everywhere | inside your head | inside your body