red shift  (in half)

for Joan Retallack

silo all by a stillness /  clock odd rounded by person /  the pour in a wave off of 

sugar /  “roundheads overpass.” / all that muscle in blackboard, ocean propos /

did i read it on a page or look ahead about print exactly alike /  now or less of

a forest /  all the time in a pause, pointed inland /  lemp synod /  how after is all /

ever since “white blood,” a rise etched at her / how far back would an idea go /  

					

thune prell /  adverse action caucus /  pickerel think /  sunken sky to frizz /  style 

is just each, the side beneath dates /  the city-line of a personage /  mute wooler /  

is just each hour about life after property  / spald tar. eye peas /  treetops only start 

the weather moviegoer’s height all dried out /  sense about aspirin /  tanned ice /

salsa reductio /  “brown fries,” her fill of bled book /  she’ll like someone at the

beginning of a career when all the edges  rub off in her hands /  “teach stools” 

/ “what sound is” dissolved along a curve /  fist balled,  not “bellamy” /  the 

distant the sky is open, “equal skin” /  a round gashed money /  the word that Joan 

dried /  lipe wall /  fog dried to a speed /  why do they look dimensional /  curlicue 

service /  creek limch /  what does steach blood /  skin of one weather following 

out a shadow /  where did i lose trace /  pie Follette /  lasted river adjective /  “pale 

porkpie” isn’t color /  Rameau used applause as a kind of black spoon /  prose as 

one long stage direction /   insect bite hospital /  opera near some average the 

color of an exaggeration /  the odds however they happen /  “mauge” /  cos site /   

the difference in a name, hair brushed back /   that’s “weak beat scenery” 

hold my  breath of built bread /  mur stripe /	 bone drake anklet /  looking at an		
all drunk up Rembrandt, hearing all at a time /   skin okasp /  any red will be

done off the other, pointing her piano toward a pitcher of print / milp. /  the flam

on sanity /  yolk imogen. nowhere out to where is said /   they become other 

people’s handwriting sudded anywhere /  thigh drail,  lessness critch /  who knows 

about the air around “Wheely Down?” /  leam  mound, drur aniline /  tint quie’b /

he set it down until the time around him changed /  the mozart they had heard 

show the forest /   a hole had been cut into the canvas for the $ /  what did 

Gramsci really think about Lenin /  noun nothing but counterpoint / grounder

out of bent color /  size of bargaining unit /   a sentence made of black river

 
	from Red shift (New York: Roof Books, 1988)