Month: January 2008
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From the Person Lodged Within
Dear Foundational Viaducts, What do you look like in small pieces and how close can I get before I taste your chalky soot on my breath? Disbeliefmanages to settle here though nothingis mandated. I have mastered this hierarchy,this large white space that greets eachevening and looks down upon me, despiteinward insecurities. I long to practicegranulated…
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Today
Opposed to the middle, land humminglike hamlets, deplorable vacancies and pasturesSettling words, often enticing,every line eventually leads straight.Inspiration located outside in unreachable realms, the insipid caw of something much older Making sense of impenetrable episodes that are shortened and condensed:My movie for you where I wave from a distance but keep moving ahead.No one really…
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Today
Reason intervenes and betrays no one as its impetus goes unquestioned,collecting things that get carriedand make us full of wrath, like tangible windows, windexed and pondered.Outside there are voices that do not come from withinManners approach lithely,wrestling the plaster that falls from above,what is obscured in habit:a large padded body that harms in turn
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Today
The prospect having arrived at the place,having been asked to be here. What great play do we submit?A rummage, ceaseless hand wringing.
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Today
Crest-ridden or disembodied,nuanced figments belabor the hard surface.Disbelief, instance, then predicament,the railroad and you fixing the pointuntil we are certain there is nothing left that waits.We ask questions, uncertain how to keep our eyes open.Our engaged retinas pass forward in repetitive language.Remember how this story repeats and stands awaiting reflection.
No Help for That | Jackie Clark 