Raymond Farr


Apparitional States

7.
I had all
These questions

Concerning
Who’s Afraid of

Virginia Woolf?
& about the subway car

Missing
Its 4^th wheel

& steering
Straight into

An ocean of bicycles
& I couldn’t

Help but wonder
What part

Of my dream
About a ghost

Locomotive
Wasn’t more than

Just a little
Homo erotic

But I was
Reaching ahead

Of what
I was doing

You were almost
My perfect woman

& I was
Almost an insect

& yeah
I wanted to

See yr face
Better

Meaning
Something I

Told you
Was only the ash

& the dirt
Of what I

Believed
& everything

Was dark
& cold

& the world
Underground

Just part of
A design—

This pure
Black

Soulless
Hallucination

Without
Eyes

But there was
Nothing

To see, you sd—
The subway

Bending into
The darkness!





Raymond Farr is author of Ecstatic/.of facts (Otoliths 2011), & Writing What For? across the Mourning Sky (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012), sic transit—“g” (Blue & Yellow Dog 2012, 2016), Poetry in the Age of Zero Grav (Blue & Yellow Dog 2015) & 2 e-chapbooks, Eating the Word NOISE! (White Knuckle Chaps 2015), & A Journey of Haphazard Miles (ALT POETICS 2016). Raymond is editor of Blue & Yellow Dog, now archived at http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com & publisher/editor of a new poetry blog The Helios Mss at theheliosmss.blogspot.com

 
 
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