QUAD
What you withhold
as you speak
lies
beyond lying
****
That smile dims
to a trace
you did not want it
taken
****
The red thread
fades in me
I turn into
the retaining wall
****
tell what it takes then
to be more
the tympanum you are
enough to resound
Listen, with your multiple ear
into the interval
into the between times
you lean on
****
the white one
she bends
into the whiteness
the white one
****
string
on string
to the white note
yet
****
a marked man
tips the scales
feather breath
tilts you
war
is raw law
a meridian
decides it
****
the dismay of thought
is history
sway
of the unforeseen
****
ex out
the name, no
issue grips you
will less
****
to remember
to resist
what remains
goes on, on and off
so much space up inside--
you hardly knew--
honey combed
mirror-plied
****
a stone song entered
into the black book
what stands forth
in the dark room
****
in the book of names
is no mourning
without the name
encrypted
****
all that remains
this steel nail
a chink
on the clinker
What you withhold
as you speak
lies
beyond lying
****
That smile dims
to a trace
you did not want it
taken
****
The red thread
fades in me
I turn into
the retaining wall
****
tell what it takes then
to be more
the tympanum you are
enough to resound
Listen, with your multiple ear
into the interval
into the between times
you lean on
****
the white one
she bends
into the whiteness
the white one
****
string
on string
to the white note
yet
****
a marked man
tips the scales
feather breath
tilts you
war
is raw law
a meridian
decides it
****
the dismay of thought
is history
sway
of the unforeseen
****
ex out
the name, no
issue grips you
will less
****
to remember
to resist
what remains
goes on, on and off
so much space up inside--
you hardly knew--
honey combed
mirror-plied
****
a stone song entered
into the black book
what stands forth
in the dark room
****
in the book of names
is no mourning
without the name
encrypted
****
all that remains
this steel nail
a chink
on the clinker