purview : the wild iris

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hardpan pipes a pygmy forest,

believe I’ll dust my broom

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the art of poverty could boast broad dominions,

esteemed colors, scarce glory

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beating time to the goon ictus

onyx (mamboid) eschatology

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presumption suckles fact from matrix,

the cleft path to free will

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anechoic, the (devouring din) the

(technology exists) to record

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half carrion, half spectre : the catalogue

raisonn_ , the lives of the poets

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lies splintered from perjured heaven, speak

to the whole (the figures mend) in us

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the affairs of infinite tradition elate

rare strains of fictitious blossoms

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nude, under all that stitchery, reascends

a stairway to the stars, hips’

syncopation, fatback drums du temps

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sleep’s surrogate scrolls the continuum

memory vamps to, unpretending time

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scarce laid in adjoining nights, skunked

alterity varies by the dream

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symmetries of the innate sentence

the trial by error the period ends

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blameless seed of endowed tropics,

uncertain transit, essential oils

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who most mistake the real, forgive it

(crosstown traffic, island life)

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each thing equal to the shape of its ‘moment’,

dressing edenic meat

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only that which we ourselves construct

can we foresee