Unfinished poem
Could you shut the poem?
Would you mind shutting the poem?
It’d help to have the poem shut.
It’s getting a bit crowded in here.
Shall we keep out the words?
*
Now, what have you forgotten to do?
A tetrad for the restoration of a Pennsylvanian age coal swamp
(Shows, left) (Shows, right)
scale trees scouring rushes
(Shows, lower left) (Notes)
seed ferns large dragonfly
20-dollar poem
Furless towers
drizzle
potbellied typefaces.
Watchdogs, sightly
rewound,
innovate clockwise.
Unrelated,
gobbledegook toboggans
boycott awfully,
pursue
longsome lowlands.
backslashes
thickening.
Glass-blowing poem
No air Bright, yellow,
smoky
Silent
Some air Bright blue Light blue
Silent
More air Bright blue Roaring sound
Still more air Bright blue Violet
Gentle hiss
Even more air Translucent-Violet
- less gas Gentle hiss
Five-mooded poem
1. The poem comes / is coming / came.
2. The poem is said to be coming / it is said that the poem came.
3. Is the poem coming / did it come?
4. So the poem is coming after all!
5. But the poem was going to come! (and now it turns out it is not)
Catherine Vidler's first collection of poems Furious Triangle was published by Puncher and Wattmann in 2011. She is the editor of online literary magazine Snorkel (www.snorkel.org.au)
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