Jamie Townsend
Hemlock
On the frozen river
songs echo
the thump of poles, below
cloudshine- billows of
dust scatter ambient star-
light
the lamp treads
water, where
voices and smoke drift
constant
-life breaks through- There
the bank’s green potion
fluttering in the wind
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Arches
The greatest- to say
Goodbye
to loose the crown from the cloud
singing, headless virulent
strung colors marked the descent
in rows
crystal the scattering sections
alight, all morning fire
broken, how the sky came in
scalloped blue shinnings
-this design begs you-
present as
the softness between the fore-
finger and thumb there
still, we reach out to touch
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The Ferrymen
There is no end, simply swinging
where-in the water, eastward
falling,rises mist
there stillness, December
with the heap of snow beside
the window
waiting
-the page is empty of all
except the possibility of ink-
sun melting, moonlight
thickens the western streams
and the storm moved up the coast throwing
great waves against cliffs
the white water,
high mountain pine
needles drip all morning
the mountain is young
again the laughing river
begins.
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ATTN. Passengers
Raving hysterics:
thru space
sped motocose, (light/slits)
further- the blur of
Franco-
American clubs, retro-
fittd bonhomie, all naught in
as to the (calling)-
Bell
-Each town sits-
Du fanatisme à la
barbarie il n'y a qu'un pas*
-Freedom (from?)
the spank of time
the switch
Again, unable to wander(fully
in blocks in
Familial law these
(the kiss-)
Collapse
andin the back of
the depot
untended;
red eyes
trail the compartments
its left (Arise!
therefore(in) fear
with what wrought so
set our
tremblng (When-
Connaître ce qui lui était caché, c'est
la griserie,
l'honneur et la perte de l'homme**
cough(ing)
settle/eyelids
* Denis Diderot
** Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
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Music of the Spheres
On the sixth day God
Sewed the fabric of stars into skin
This is
Kirana raga, nothing wasted
Endless,
Ebbing
motion
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In Amber
Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labi
Total=as the sum of these
portions, taken
or as the dragonflew once.
They
frozen(rigid). Now as
in (memoriam) they wings , and in
amber the (Elysium)-
little
(spring) fingers frozen
~
Ad vitam
aeternam
they in
burning golden great
wall( ofcurve comb(ed) smooth.
Inspirits (Adsum!)
red as rule®s
In ( t h i c k )
consuming viscous
Our Country (In
(stone) Beautiful
singing.
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Pepper
it swelled, the skin
red (itself) it
rocked the crowd(ed
air
against the skull, up
concepted plan(t)s as skin
red a(gain)st skull
-thought bubbles-
red plants
skin skulled
against the
swinging air
the swell,(ing)
thoughts (rocked)in the
crowded bubble.
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