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