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 Hooks in Case of Trees
(extract)



from recursion (bough nesting branch) to a sharper
recurve of the offer       haptics at bay in broad
fastenings of tree, onshore touch bending from
norms of sift

                                                       connectivities limbed with short
                                                       (unsought) retrievals    a scarcity of
                                                       embrace proving it was given sub-
                                                       conditions at a no-fault passage     once
                                                       hooked a redundant incentive tool is
                                                       fully distributed      dry, fern-like
                                                       counter-estrangement

the contagion offers reversal of source (ie gift) an
on-behalf      bodied into a group of tree layered at
the rootholds of stack-in-hasp

                                                    holistic without any totals outside a cap
                                                    probing bulk offer     the pattern pleating
                                                    openly a sacral retortion      conductive
                                                    generosity is a flash of curtailment,
                                                    emergence sparks a given-from

elements of diminutive beckoning have their siblings
in leaves     to unsettle receipt signals but not the
placidity of faint arrival

                                not hooked to a
                                tree but improvises
                                inclusion in less,
                                additional lease
                                out of rarity

                                                    sheltering curbs grow more capacious
                                                    than their foreshortening, the curve
                                                    across periphery     matters of hold set to
                                                    flinging with the palpable, flanging a tree
                                                    of nothing but bushed curves bold to its
                                                    hook

pluck into cover bare extended grip, shake any
gouging out of grasp     these spike particles only
project as ramified

                                long lances of tree
                                stubbed to height
                                upwards of contention
                                thrown the narrows
                                of resort

                                                    unribbed steer, wince in the curve
                                                    a stem signal slaked of direct stress
                                                    the weft of branches round a hook astern
                                                    tempts masts to a blunter lightening,
                                                    such pendent lengthenings among lift

                                hooks at the tree-
                                purge of empty
                                heavens, the recurve
                                a direct signal
                                to enter preserve

existing trees to a given hook, catch segment from
obdurate crook     pose and twist a joint only
shareable hereat     snag this toward better tree

                                                    a tangent starve my centre     but stalled
                                                    (mangered) in the abating crest of
                                                    trees—trust at its lesser hold is
                                                    concomitant hook      flukes a shoot alive
                                                    in the travel silence     break its cloak of
                                                    flight across exchangeable bounds

spineless in mature tree still drawing aggregates
from hook     unadditionally the inherent cup
overfulfils its rim       an edge weak enough for lip:
scarred by tall pittances amends a frail
ontological patience becoming its “until” already in
relation     scabs early the hitch of elation

                                hooks in leaf
                                attenuate beyond
                                feature, soft on
                                futures of blunt finger


                                                    each clutch of recompense is an
                                                    immunity tallness put through
                                                    clustering     stood to the disaster though
                                                    with convergence overlooked     trans-
                                                    recession at the vertical curdle of hook

a carrying curve of leaf with dip sympathies     to
stage normative release in order to overhook it in
leaf     sidling into the reproof of tree astonish tree

                                                    I am caught by the refuels, the uptwill of
                                                    a tree’s secondary hook     where root is
                                                    prior reserve not grasped as such:
                                                    what is twisted through hook is delayed
                                                    enough to filter a strategy of futures for a
                                                    minimal membrane’s trap-surge:
                                                    which makes the sole relational
                                                    demand on feature


                                if trees do curve
                                are they cowering
                                stretched bundles of
                                ground in a weak
                                snake of uptake?

                                load-bearing curls
                                brittle enough for a
                                salience of unlatched hooks?

                                severally but at spikes of
                                cadence    no hooks to a
                                retinue but globes community
                                on the recurve—as ridged
                                to dry bud

                                racks up only as
                                levelled to seam,
                                what leaps gives
                                chase pre-accented


Peter Larkin
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