Steven Salmoni


from Kos

No hope to change 

               the case, and 
no other change 
                                             that is, or

                is the case, the case in hand, that has been changed



– not made known and continued, speaking.  Speak.


found in the field of

circumstance,



“this book is the surface of the said, to talk about such changes as the book continued.  
Speak, the ought of speaking

“it was said that we might not be found

“to look for you for islands found in all the books withheld



               One comes across a whole, not after. Wrought, such as the sun is called, a non- effect. Thus intending


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            – or more yourself, likely to perform 
the same. 

                                                            Eye if this line is the name of both,

and then, say the 
spiral is 

               self-explanatory

as it then can be – sometimes even more, 

                                                                                      and soon the cells break down as if to reveal the nature 
                                                                                       of effect I know like nothing in life or rarely a form of 

                                                            serpentine, at times, but
as it will continue, to decline –

                                                     embryonic, broken curve will be
                                                     to focus)

               the question.  A question I recognize, the line, the line of sense, you say   

that volume will reveal 
itself as line


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so that the limit is its volume, it is to resolve. We say its focus in divergent ways. The effect is resolute, 
in the first case, more stringent



                              “The manner was certain, and the eye happened in this manner.”

who spoke to me is different here

                                             , white spicule of grain

a line is merely memory - and from an emphatic point in time

                                                                           arrant blue or white, but seems no point in having I argue 

a more perfect beauty, perfect together, what should be asked, once a way to chase 
               what precipitates

and the sand, and what needs to be







second, the imposition of the eyes, the whole mark, the sand 

reveals that the problem of an organ is one of long term memory

when at first the wounds begin the sharp edge is found to be nothing like the sight 


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The word in the field 

or the fulcrum 

bearing measures



One character of the bay is its withholding. 

We are all content, in its object, 



the deep-laid, intrigues trailing.  


“See the straight form, see the shining stone”



You have a line yet 

nothing is drawn closer. 



That this is not a field is still in your thoughts, beyond an anchor, a human form, still, and some lines very 

wrong in the world, and yet I somehow felt that I should be a barometer. 

You bring the atmosphere. The form of loss, and then the form of loss.


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The center known as the kingdom of the other

And significant in the world the world of refraction,  

A look at his aster will be the pirated 
     refrain

to turn the world and the world in the meeting with


Come, I will not be taken, as if it were to be more than similar to the leaves and slender

fractions around the body, to hem oneself with the garden of the
pliable, the garden of its elegant clothes. Round the peduncle, or radiant fringe 

“to refract the differences of vision”

about which, it seems that one is close to see oneself fully gripping the truth, or it’s refraction. Pedicels 
and the purpose of this meeting, I think, but not of the world.


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               “. . . therefore, we took note of the road . . .”

                    similar to most but not to say
                      in theory

               to render eaves

 

               To find precision, “the way” may be a shorthand’s grace



in their insistence to recognize the similarities 
, anatomy and leaf

      in wood, its own significance, 



                              but there are similarities

                                             and always to adhere, to leaves, and other 
                              axioms


(letter-like



“then shadow, then leaf


               newly in the shadow of the line, 	

Steven Salmoni’s recent publications include A Day of Glass, the chapbook Landscape, With Green Mangoes (both from Chax Press) and poems in Puerto del Sol, P-Queue, Mid-American Review, The Brooklyn Review and Interim. Selections from his work have also appeared in the anthologies The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (Unbound Editions, 2022) and The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press, forthcoming 2023). He teaches at Pima Community College in Tucson, AZ and also serves on the Board of Directors for Chax Press and for POG, a Tucson-based literary and arts organization that hosts an annual reading series.

 
 

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