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from Scales:
 

I
"the brain being an organ patterned in all directions by a network
as fine and feathery as the skeleton of a leaf."      English exam.
 

When it happened
in an inaccessible space
in parallel with a configuration of neural states,
was this itself part of the happening?

light on wet branches takes the shape of a tree
a light tree
six minds speeding by trace it instantly

February.
A pebble beach near a railway track.
Genevieve collects treasure in a straw hat.
Florence, fully shod, goes paddling
while Margaret looks for ###### for a mosaic.
Beatrice wants milk.

Lustre is what gives them their beauty
and shimmering iridescence, the bright
yet deep seated sheen on the surface created
through the reflections and refractions
of millions of microscopic layers

Not that Gorgias, in arguing that nothing really exists,
that if anything did exist it could not be known
and that if knowledge were possible it could not be communicated,
sorted it
noticing the noticing but not the means
as if the world snake had a head but no body.

One by one each starts at the advanced decay
of a cloth dinosaur.  A train goes by.

Amplified, the embryonic heartbeat
an extraordinarily gripping clattering

and a gallery of grotesque characters
confronted with the conflict between

mirror mirror

Zugzwang
no matter how much to your disadvantage

Signals reflecting off ######### or hills reach the antenna
a little later than those that travel directly
making a ghost, or second image, appear on the screen.
 

 
II
 

what seem to be specks of dust resolve
a past
          pierced by harmonies
desolate              fertile

##### feeding on itself
 among a procession of icy bodies
cloud seas lands        turning
the summed light of billions

sensitive damaging
two refractions one internal reflection
a city
           cut cabochon as a gem

energy in transit      ###  streets
reduced by distance to a brilliant glaze
where limbs and torsos
tread    light

                        ####  freedom    chance
tensing and releasing
in response to microslips along

res ipsa loquitur
relatively although not absolutely
 

stick bone reed metal graphite
 

VIII
 

Ut queant laxis resonare fibris
Mira gestorum
famuli tuorum
Solve polluti labii reatum Sancte Iohannes …

whose skeleton still jigs, sounding the scriptable, up a twisted
rope ladder, down the serpent's gape, structive in/de/con,

        atto femto nano micro milli kilo mega giga tera

concentric furrows, rungs and gaps, gamut, given or
imposture, abbreviated experience, Guido's Harmonic
Hand, taking two, sex, like the enchiridias using lines but
also the spaces between,

                                   thus           down
                         into
                           so much      pain

                                  beneath our corrupted city

                             the boom of water
 
                    and
                                herds of naked souls