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See Through
by Frances Richard
ISBN: 1-884800-48-3 |
DICTIONARY EPISODE I looked you up in the shallow water dictionary. It said black and blue, said awkward scar, forget-me-not noli me tangere kind of thing. Foam slaps the oar-locks. Spume drowns. A stained safety orange, salt-stiffened gloves for example, or starting the car with a screwdriver fixed in ignition. That can be yours; I'll use episode, as when the girl enters the fête in her novel, in muslin, her premodern shift. Match-head flame in the orchid, core roseate with big voltage. Urge—further it. We feel shy, as if breathless were cozy. Now this alcohol sting of the mind, I can't read, as on marshland the windows are oozing, not solid but slow-moving gel. Did you know glass is permanent liquid? So stand here a temblor, see outer: quilts, pots, dust, excitement. And inner: snow. It depends. Parts bulbed and fructified, furred bow in rattling orchestra. A soughing thing fattened and bullied by boring wind. Want that, want laugh and tough match-head burns in the orchard, stripped edges. Soothe, you flare. |
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