SUBJECT>Re: poem with footnotes POSTER>geoff EMAIL>geoffleone@hotmail.com DATE>1110135697 IP_ADDRESS>uhall-backlab-119t.fdu.edu PASSWORD>aa3znsx.4y15U PREVIOUS>84296 NEXT> 84362 IMAGE> LINKNAME> LINKURL>

Re. poem with footnotes

For David Ayers.

This has tons of style. Pound-like in its insistence.

A prophetic stance more interested in finding an ear for prophets than presenting prophecies.

Alternately, ninety percent string and no teabag.

Best,

Geoff

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: and later the gold leaf making her neck burn
: falling in flakes off the shelf

: falling
: falling
: in a manner similar to an airplane

: but like a kite, fast and loose

: to pull a ribbon

: as if the fingers knew how to unbutton it all
: to transform the hands into paddles
: into webbed cleats

: and go up

: again

: as she did swim through it after all

: as he did in that tunnel saying what it had
: said

: between page one and cover
: the map

: and the hands
: drier than anything

: and the wing-bones had grown back

: as in one of those treasure films

: and everyone aware

: for they had said X

: they pulled something
: sacred from its niche