mark so

 

a

future

in

hand

 

 

–

 

spilled

close to the earth

Outside and in,

living sideways,

and down

 

opposite

the center

and

at the

bottom,

indeterminate

sounds.

thumbed through

and

read

unmistakably nearer–a great roar all

around

that covered every other sound.

in

night

and

the table

outside the window,

subsiding

and an early

dinner to look forward to. Each

part of the

room

on

either side.

disordered

terrain

with its

 

stumps,

the

sliced

line across

to

somewhere

beneath

 

–

 

And

time

no longer

there

instead here,

a founda-

tion.

trembling

in

that

mix

worn

off 

so naturally

to

take on the forms and

symbols of

talking

intimate,

and

gradually

understood

 

[13 ii 2022/marfa, 21 ii 22/pasadena]