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.
immediately a streak
......of snapped back broken filaments
...................of laughter
cackled with midnight vultures
at 8 am a naked light

........against
morning door,with tea:
....................earl..............
gray

we sat and watched lamplight
claw at the walls--

.......................................*

..........eternity, where’s eternity?
...............does it ever quell?

in our bellies; a place of wonderment,
with each trochaic sigh steeped
............restless to distress

our corkscrew bodies; a 1969 meeting
.......................at dusk
overheard lips take their final stress

........................spondee?
...........where’s your spondee?

.....it brushes someone
...else’s neighboring
....................word

will Joris’ Canto Diurno be sung to choirs
.........................of bitten twigs?


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...our words
are absentia
..........of all presence--
that which means, means
absolutely

nothing