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Jac Nelson




YELLOW BICYCLE AND GLASS

what polemic
what architecture

what polemic what
architecture

what

what


WAYWARD OR

WINDOW IN THE NIGHT WARD, VIEW OF THE WET COMPLEX OR

HAIRPINS LOST ON THE WAY

indeed something – something which was in a shell which was in a shell (something like a pith, in a walnut shell, in the shell of κοσμός) – something had loved you.


LANGOUROUS FLIGHT IN THE HUMANLESS MEADOW

dead with light,
dead with silence and wind,

the boundaries of the fauna paths melt under the wide mouth of the vacuous heart.*



*“heart” must stand in place of another word, which we don’t have, but by which we would understand something inside which is at once


both a source of emanation and a lake of return, or body of return,

(though it is no lake, nor body, nor heart).



THIS IS NOT A RECORD OF WHAT HAPPENED

in an airplane, the tape rewinds, then runs forward again over itself.


THE POET RUNS FROM THE POETIC EYE

this poet –

this deranged and naked lung,

or Fury on panicked feet –

this poet comes screaming out

from some deprived envelope,

waving briny hands,

frantic,

the poet has lost it, a lunatic.



the Poetic Eye is an entirely different creature,

a cold scanner,

making:

this object is not gray

this object is not black

draining:





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