[without sound]
O inside the O
breadth of the mountain
and water beneath
sky a cipher
readers asleep
mouthing their dreams
fears of whispering
become a creed
until life blurs
like any lens
that fails at attention
[without shadow]
death stutters
in the voice
of a judge
ostrich-headed
predilections
blatant and grave
the body asks
for frost
the mind frontal
watching the avalanche
on bone’s white page
opaque wide space
filled with zeroes
and feathers
limit abetting
abstraction
gone with only
one breath
[without erasure]
worlds collide
solid as candles
stiff as wood
what to forget
when knowing
leeches out like
oil buried
in sandy ground
in multiples
of green
ignorance is brilliant
colored tattooed
over-committed
to its opinions
laments unmute
their billowing song
their edges
taut with recognition
[without coherence]
under the moon’s ledger
the page unattended
hardly a snail
on a white leaf
or a bone
to call meadow
light she thinks
no longer itself
or the weather
or nodding
this instance
of meaning
inexact skeptical
hesitates
in the wings
[without a narrator]
Mr. and Mrs. History
hand in hand
enact the silence
of alternate views
consolation shivers
time dispossessed
patience rewritten on
unchristened ground
in the pageant
the deaths of lovers
disincarnation
in childless space