As/Is







2.27.2004


A Round Rebuttal

for DTM



What's given: quantum
vat of syllables,

parenthetical to the bone,
musk of round

rebuttal, the dawn-bodied-your
& "vocable" peaks, long valleys--all

alphabetic turns & the lake reflecting
silent asterisks. What a consonant

engine you have, the act of breathing
a porous exclamation for inverted

commas & rhythmic clauses, pink
hours of sign & sigh, a little olive

oil in the storage vessel, grammar,
a certain pull of ribbon-road in every you,

every black capped beginning
& bracket then

to hyphenate some you to some I
wherever it has gone cerulean & paragraph.