AGAINST SPECIAL MOMENTS

Why I wake Mary O early
I will never know

I do not--for enrichment--own
the slightest view, nor its

window


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fulfillment capital

surplus enrichment


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(two poems that each need a second section)

1
Lobed, mellow
agreement.

Three shots
"rang

out." Blue
corps.

Add the
"e"

of the
air.


2
"More to be revealed"
said the white block
in the dark pool

You have to watch
reruns

for that.
The organizational

functions.
Loss on the vertigo-

danced horizon
of calm.


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addenda

says the chimera

_______

laced
..........tide

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show your stock
a good time

bond, age, cow
(tick) talk

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feed us this crow
.
we don't know stones


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Today's reading: Carla Harryman's Open Box (improvisations). It's a great book. The form is highly liberating, and suggests valuable possibilities for writing to me. Each page consists of two four-line stanzas, with plenty of white space around them. The pairs most often seem like independent poems, but often the last line carries over syntactically into the first line of the next page, and themes recur at various points, so the book ends up reading like a very loose set of serial poems of varying lengths--or one book-length work. The way it can function formally in multiple ways thrills me--particularly the way this allows multiple simultaneous scales to work, often in friction with each other. The details (individual lines and stanzas) are generally stunning. The poems above, aside from being improvisations, have little to do with Harryman's book.