David Greaves

things becoming flat and things beginning to settle

1. the quick

hypothetical: you were standing

bark clad the root it was wreathed in frantic cloud flow without centre

water moved & water was moving, this was without reflection

& asked where & this in land I will ask this | be asking 

then the root were when water came, which lent itself to brevity. motion at this speed cannot be thought.

2. as if glimpsed in the surface of a pool of still water

hypothetical: there was one who was standing

wreathed in bark | there was not one; enact this

you flow in water. it is impossible to prevent.

light moves thickly on certain surfaces & on land now reflect 

you were a hypothetical & rock reflected in sky, ask

3. the tendency is toward old growth

roots define what is asked. water is understood to flow

bark was moved out from the flow of root, & rock told us in great motion

a hypothetical was land & ask | water stands

then ask without centre. not thought

& one asked. be wreathed & clad

4. reframed, or, consider the land as viewed from a point that is not a point, and as viewed without being viewed, at which point it can be considered a wisp

then there will be nothing but sky & the flow of standing 

what is shared is a hypothetical, an information, enact the wreathed matter in land that has no centre | no ground

water was lit. this reflected

per structure become clarified as if the glow fell & were flat

then structure ends. this hypothetical thought, unrevolving, free of centre, only day

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David Greaves is a writer based in the UK whose poetry and fiction have appeared in Datableed, Lune, and Tenebrae.
 
 
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