Jim Leftwich


SILENCE & ERASE

1.

screams nothing
notes seek
sleek even mad



2.

living here
and there
i for an eye



3.

listening below
the hollow
things hinged



4.


but cannot
explain carrots
thin than then



5.

why and who
brings her here
whole and where



6.

the spine
recalls the
pineal quill



7.

fetter breath as
letters tell besides
the ladders fell



8.

nowhere matters
unchanged happens
during chance



9.

yet now nothing
was afraid to be
seen not listening






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10.

more than no
longer is less than
going too far



11.

for whom much
wanted a body
screams no noise



12.

every time what
words actual in
silence and erase



13.

was the same
nor speaks revolt
or warms in turn



14.

when for a long
time now words
according to the
necessary police



15.

when to believe
ourselves was wrong to trust
the moment echoes



16.

little by little
from the start
no vocabulary for that



17.

no longer among us
turning back to
order as arranged



18.

when not yet once
can never be
given no one knows



19.

facing the finding
the hammer the
hammer stutters



20.

feels that at that
fees at ease
i’m not

                               10.02.07

 
 
 
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