ESCAPING POETICS
Coming into selfhood may not be unlike
learning the works, or believing you
yourself had authored them. For an instant
it assents, the cantilevered pool.
Subjectivity as an acculturation that
appears material. Like one’s coming to
know French. Even immateriality is described
through colorful adjective work. Like sorbetto
balled on a thin, thin cone. How did it get
there?
We use the conversation couch in moderation.
Construction workers bury a line outside your
apartment building. Bones from an ossobuco.
WHAT SYMBOLS HAVE SIGNIFICANCE IN YOUR LIFE?
In the reflection room, those expert at needlework
devised ducks. They knitted crests. One gives a
knitted pelican a lesser significance than the real
thing. Molting and fresh. There is a panel at the base
of your apartment complex’s stairs which reads: all
systems normal. How do linguists explain the faction
of orcas who tear off the rudders of pleasure boats?
What is their correspondence? I gave this calf a
secret name, just for me, though it’s ultimately up to
the raffle winner. Explain the interiority of a golden
retriever, after fireworks, escaping onto the highway
across from the lake, tongue plum out, weaving
between the 18-wheelers. All the fiction exposed by
photography.