CONJUNCTIONS:42, Spring 2004

Still No Still Ann Lauterbach

Walden still for example no still. Or the other one, tiny in the mind no still or that one. The extensions of habitat, the coming back no still around to the pond still. The two dogs still, wind no still. Nature still intersects culture no still sooner no still or later no still. The difference no still between being no still glad and being afraid no still across the width of a puddle still. The common no still scrap reflected, stepping across still. Straddling a scrap of sky still within the puddle still, the miniature no still, urban pond. Description no still overflows into narrative no still, no narrative wanders no still. Muddy tracks. still. What gist of night? No still. Rage at the augmented no still but vacated sublime no still. As if, night no still or day still, any of us no still. Gladness and fear no still. The dog humps seen through binoculars still in a small suburban town still. Panes of glass, all illusory no still black still, a single star percolating in a single frame still. The other face still across a table still. Nature no still filtering its message no still through its nonmessage no still. Screened-in porch still imagining no still the young girl still abducted to her death no still from the car wash still shortcut to home still, caught no still, as they say no still, on video still. This no still is not a car still, this is a girl still being dragged still to her death no still. The dogs still trapped no still in the water still. The dream no still of a young man still. The dream no still of the drunk no still woman still. The thoughts no still about her daughter still. The dream no still about no still the drunk mother still. After she fell into the no still pond still, she dreamed no still of a young man still. He no still, the young man still, a stranger no still. How is it possible no still to dream no still of strangers no still? Will things still get better no still? What no still makes things still better no still? The girl still abducted by the stranger no still will not get better no still although her father still says no still she is now no still in a better place no still. Nature filtering its message no still through its nonmessage no still. The star still has disappeared no still from the part of night framed in the window still. The ordinary no still adheres to what might be consigned no still to nothing no still. The mystique of drowning no still, the painless no still cold no still. Pond life still. The gear still or frame still of speech no still. Table talk no still and the lines of sight or flight paths no still as if the birds still were no still still no still. Spell bird. B still as in bird still. I still as in I no still. R still as in are no still. Humiliated by certainty no still. Intention no still and its target still. No no still second changes no still no second glances still, onetime only no still smile for the camera still. Abducted by certainty no still. He picked up the large glass still and saw no still a naked woman still stepping within no still. The ocular cold no still. Scrappy indoctrination of the humdrum no still. A blue sign still for history no still, little waving stripes still for country no still. Against the certainty no still of kings, their crowns still in God’s no still kitchen still. The mountain humps still up in the pale sky still; the bodies of the dogs still in the frozen pond still. The sad no still jurisdiction no still of the weeds still. Species still no still speaking no still the King’s English no still. Say please. No still. Mired now in the muddy waters still of the pond still, run aground. Gridlock still. Talks fell through no still. Out of the picture no still. Too many scavengers along the line of sight—gulls still, hawks still, black cat in snow still. Contaminated no still by beauty no still! The transcendental no still mirror still, looking down into the pond still. Ace in the hole no still. Let it no still not fall and no still one still by one still, the Jack still and the Queen still and the King still and the pawns no still. Nothing no still left: board still empty, dishes still to wash, bill still to pay, birds still to feed. Spell no still pond still. One thing after another no still. Letter no still for letter no still. S still as in still no still p still as in purple no still e still as in even no still l still as in left no still, l still as in later no still. P still as in pretty no still, o still as in over no still, n still as in now no still, d as in dead no still. Still purple even left later pretty over now dead. No still.