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Mark DuCharme



D E H S I N I F N U   E H T

Today is porous with material

I eat the future

Its long legs encircle me, sometimes

What will I say to tomorrow?

My shorts are full of noise

I can no longer hear this vanishing


The reversal of this image dreams a future which is already erased. Deflected into thunder which you cannot smoke. Where light grows irregular. There is a torsion under your lips which will not keep still. Cannot possibly bloom, until I see you in this light. For light insert night. An endlessness forged at stray edges of the tongue. The better to sing your name.

When I look into mirror, I am often somewhere

Else. Days flew past

When I look into mirror I am elsewhere, between
Here & the edges of what sings
What sings is currently at a table
It does not have much time      it flees this

It flings this
The shiny restlessness of cities ghosts this space

It is a shiny cartography
A jackpot foolishness     a residue

Which the new implodes in cities while we wake


The light goes out behind the mirror

Everything sings
Which is unreflected
Inflected on our tongues

Our eyes reflect
What does not b(l)ind us

While we wait we are not sung to

In the mirror which uncovers silence
When the wind grows blank

To be these instances where we don’t dream
To uncover whispers under cities
As the days grow long, & no one whispers

A private landscape.      A subjective barrage



The Unfinished

The marvel at the side of a reference
Is all used up. We can disown its voice,
Its unkempt gardens. No one tells you to
Stop channeling the past,
You just decide to do it one day,
& It works. If you ride that
Particular train, a fly will enter
The car window & leave
By the opposite door. Does that
Smear of ink on your finger
Mark you
As an un-twentyfirst century
Poet? Rain today
Or grimy. The hand waves.
It is announcing its condition, by writing.
It is nothing more than a name,
A device that smells of musk.
Terrible. Wedged into summer.
Listen to the rains which strike. This is
No accident. For some
Who have considered leaving,
Now would be the time. It occurs
Frequently, & nothing pulls
It out of character. You
Cannot teach it; you cannot
Touch it; yet it is always
You.



Mark DuCharme's print books of poetry include The Sensory Cabinet (Blazevox Books, 2007), Infinity Subsections (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2004), Cosmopolitan Tremble (Pavement Saw Press, 2002) and Answer (due in 2011 from Blazevox). The Found Titles Project was published electronically in 2009 by Ahadada. The latest of his many print chapbooks is The Crowd Poems (Potato Clock Editions, 2007). Other parts of The Unfinished have appeared or are forthcoming in Colorado Review, Eleven Eleven, Eratio, New American Writing, Poets for Living Waters, Or, Pinstripe Fedora, Raft and Word for/Word. Still other work is recent in Vanitas and PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry). He lives, works in and teaches near Boulder, Colorado.
 
 
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1 Comments:

Blogger Raymond Farr said...

Great reading

Loved each section
more than the one before

I'd like to publiish something of yrs in Blue & Yellow Dog

my email is
warholaray1@embarqmail.com

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