1.


invisible language
imprisons : words set traps : meant to

serve they enslave ensnare
shape our thoughts :

preceding us by many ages languages
prescribe distort limit twist influence

suggest : our jargons assure our
self destruction : but words are as

true as poets are : can only be as
true as poets are : only as

forward expanding and
free

2. Jimenez


by chance
beside me on the table a
book of Spanish poets: turn to Jimenez: read

again of April's brimfull of golden flowers
anointing all with yellow "todo lleno de
amarillo" yellow butterflies yellow roses

how even among the bones of the dead "los
huesos de los muertos" God opens his yellow
hands

3. Sappho


some
singers
survive
still enduring though
suppressed by tyrants by mafias or
stifled by relentless censorship
some
saved for us though
struck down by madness by illness
suicide
some
stay fresh in
spite of crushing
success and adulation

Sappho
survives only by
strength of reputation
stripped by time by winds
shredded by invaders by looters
scattered fragments
salvaged from graves
stitched together
sufficiently to
show her lyric
strength her
surpassing originality
subtle
supple
simple

4.

we see clearly what we are thinking
when we attempt to write

poetry : compression gives
power to stray ideas : loose strands

coil into 
compact lines : the

diffuse sharpens
distilling

5.


hope always for
healing emerging from all

our
obsessions with

techniques and
technology :

love of illusion never
left us but some testable

facts did incorporate into our
fictions

6.

 
recall is similar to
remember with perhaps an

additional urgency
active within it : a shout or a

cry or a message dispatched
canceling the order to

proceed with the execution of the
prisoner

7.

 
shift the map
slowly

adjust the
alignments to

connect
chart with dark

dice black in night
deep

starred with
skydots

8. Apollinaire

 

8.


9.

words
warp

language
limits

poetry
pierces

barriers:
breaking out

10. sounding


words
wound

words are
wounds of
sound

sounding down
wards
sounding in
wards
sounding in
words

11. e.e.


Buffalo
Bill's defunct
sure

but so's our blue
boy maybe

addressing Mr. Death e.e. was
also speaking

4 himself and
4 all of us

smooth silver
stallion

riders
racing after

glam and
glory

12. cancel me

cancel me / dis                                    
card me / dis
charge me off /
cut me away from
ceaseless Human
conflicts / from killer
crews / the
complicated
credulous Human
crowd /
crazed and
cruel / whose greedy
creed is murder for the
Clan / for the
Country / for the Holy
Creator /
crashing about /
crushing / burning
cities / blazing
continents  /
centuries of
crimes / the
careless
chaos / the
colossal waste /
calamities of History

cancel me / dis
charge me /
cull me away /
carry me off / let me be
come self
consoling / alone / self
combing / un
coiling / simple / self
clearing and
clear

word wall

word
wall

studio

torn
paper 
and tape: 
continually
rearranged


void verb

word
wall


continuing
changes
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