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Drain

from Walls by Energetic Action

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Drain

Strain making circles
Hale to stop the mind
Sow from the hand
Dig and it falls out –

After a long emptying conversation I lean headlong into a shadowy meadow country between my knees
(Not new to me this place, its smell like unwashed parts,
forsaken skin. What little kisses we import here –
and why? The world afloat in amplitudes of lips,
soon Vancouver will be sunk, then will the plains remain so dark?
I watched the candles shorten – little voices – there then not –
I felt the heat come off and knew – once a lung expiring,
one long lung that burns then gone.)

Here there are little sparrows,
they sometimes hop into the hollows to give a rustling to nothing
as I recite all over everything
I recite in empty halls
I recite on city buses
I recite inside of palms crying holy intercession
but without breath – what to say?
I listen for the laughter of another bird gone pecking
mad, that voice my own, nothing
he or she or that or if could say to which I would object:

Silent provincial beaches stretching yawning mouthed bulging eared loneliness picking seeds from sand
for yet another guest to feed and
what matter if the hands stay planted long into the night?
I am empty.

Cacophony! Oh, Consonance!

I lonely rhyme.

Down to where the devil groans
I reach a hand and with a fist
Persuade him up to come again.

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from Walls, released August 29, 2011
Bassett, Burkosky, Finkelman, Synnett, 2011.

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