Tom Beckett


A Meditation

          (for Jordan Stempleman, once again)


I
don't think
color or form.

Of
space, all
I know is

I
want to
be born again

as
water in
a shaken colander.

All
meaning is
mediated by calendars.



Tom Beckett's Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems 1978~2006 is coming soon from Meritage Press. He lives in Kent, Ohio.


 
 
 
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