Clara Burns
gazing through all of them at once
which slipping by become themselves.”
–Lyn Hejinian, The Book of a Thousand Eyes
a moment sit sounds from some distance move closer, shake hands with the clock
See:
Lack of a consistent sense of purpose.
Or, not consistently discernible. A stream intermittently underground or otherwise apparently but not actually discontinuous.
“Metonic cycle: A period of 235 lunar months, or about nineteen years, at the end of which the phases of the moon occur in the same order and on the same days as the preceding cycle.”
How could the phases of the moon occur in any but the same order?
Interrobang. Lapse into silence.
I have nothing, I am nothing. To procure is to erase.
This raises questions & leaves them unanswered. Requiring further research to satisfy, if satisfaction is required.
A puzzle. To puzzle.
Disarming longing, disquieting purpose, what impels.
With greater & greater difficulty.
Puzzle. Solve.
Lapse of memory, reverse perception, disorientation, or
Release into being. choose. ( )
Transparency hanging in the same space as objects. Clock audibly. I close my eyes, ready for sleep. They come again.