Jeff Bagato Ten Poems some functions of lingual add explanations add speculations add treaties. testify. grind labels keep places mark territories where one where’s one tension. collision blind illusion markers. new places old places, old ways map text lead guess add enunciations add benedictions add scarification. bless, allow scars text bodies loose parchment patch askew. slant. twist folded language marked language align. distress. remark places that fail designs that fail markers. signs. mistatements gifts. giving present present’s repeats is history inscription prescription to monuments to moments to missives to mazes labyrinth a passage a label an icon all statues gather stone meaning proscription incision scars battlements. agreements consignments. intension precision excision lost markers lost elements mixed mansions missed options massed opinions mass markets. mess markets. mad markets. more markets add confusion add collusion add indecision. omit. redact declassify mislabel malfunction maps. mapped assumptions add distinctions add extinctions old places. sold places told places where one place places one replace. trace outline. demark. define mark out. erase. line out ф say out noise you taste merry plate you share partially inhabiting travel impression you correct how sex several for distant believe journey parties Song such eyes had Letters old sending not sex chamber because present if pretended her boy demand expense outward projecting own resolved goodness ф tailing action float sign instead pitter patter bit off the microphone half there to see his own fate what makes sense cannot make sense a world gotten smaller & now we need to open up the rooms ф talker view conversational teller telling hear taker lick factor gems for eyes moist gems stars of your show green or grey tambor troubadour from chin wag to soapbox garrulous deliberate odor of words unceasing watch what you view preparatory to nothing ф day lag why don’t you. cooperative single out misting. misty morning total mist watch, make atmosphere visible, a somewhere there. not nowhere like a gain what we gain gaining an ether if such a thing anyway would be ф palest pensive dress down. drains locks ruin doors shaping possibilities to prisons wage wallows against tides clocks ruin days slicing lifetimes to discontinuities not everything can be parallel longitude or lattitude ruins globes girding lands to zones of number, privilege that bias war tricks. tracks. traps even so traps ф nettle pack lock swell martial indifference sailing. selvage. salvage training panhandle crest far trailing claim doss. paddle. lantern pulse shudder shuttle ways to go backward only backward on a train at top speed tattle. spent. allover temple a din that forms a notion crackle. just a blaze even backward it burns ф laugh track to everything a short guffaw at each pop-up of surprise doling out amusement daring to say the obvious making plain the pricks & wounds a bandage that was never stained still hurts when pulled away ф gurgle. fetter. blessed or bleeding a bane banished fame toxicity a poisoner announces the poison cures If cured the patient dies in peace high on the opium taken in small doses chalice aforethought leap safety a bog catches, buoys until its grip takes hold limbs fills nostrils pulls in the embrace cattle chains a long one for all cattle look the same ф This Immersion mazes oceans seas immersion ether atmosphere a mist congealing in aspic in gel emulsion a medium of support OR RESTRAINT or restraint a medium of illusion can you feel it yes you can feel it can you touch it no you can’t touch it does it touch you it touches you coverage absorption saturation dissolved consumed ingested asphyxiation suffocation drowning dissolving abating becoming returning mazes oceans seas ether atmosphere emulsionprevious page contents next page
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