From Series/Mnemonic
by Trane DeVore
1.
one, in a troubled moon
is an eye.
a drop of rain
in conjunction
(the moon
is eclipse)
a sorry noon
(all over again)
the toil or jolt of
configuration.
again and again
the rhythm punctuates—
this becomes the larynx,
wave after wave
creating lines.
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2.
abducent past. abducent love.
how we become sailors
on a shipwreck, the roof of the sky
and the sea diminish,
disappear in the offing.
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3.
the abessive case
is always love,
is lone
is the sky opening up
dropping thousands of leaves—
the small events.
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4.
it is clean
because I can attach a word to it.
"dust" or
"arrow".
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5.
a.
an abacus in
a tessera in time
is what white bone
in a square tooth
(what we’ve got
invested in a smile).
b.
a river is not in itself
its stones, notes
in its voice,
a ringing of what we
see in glitter.
c.
no doubt the
rectitude. what we
firmly deserved.
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6.
In talking, we talked for a hundred years. Talked out and over (and around) a hundred years. A twin penumbra falls on the car’s hood, illuminated by sodium.
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7.
a.
we are all locked into
in what we want
to have fired up
as duets.
b.
falling is gyration
from this axis to the next.
c.
always searching what a weight is.
desire for the substance behind the letter.