As/Is

8.20.2004

Cedula Chain

the winged ones gardening

desperately  pre

pare the cuttings

     slice the green medulla

     dance into breakfast

possum regulates the spleen

   murmurs contradictory

         evidence

for a disease yet unnamed; it's early

the blood not yet up

the fingers not primed

for their work

of translating chains

      the computer is my

dashboard a rising

                        sun

scans helpless robotics

     clicked in the night

now feign quiet

hiding designs for simple

pre-dawn rituals

     of vote-counting

     and the exorcizing

of memory

      

posted by Jean Vengua on Friday, August 20, 2004

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thanks, Clayton!

# posted by  Jean Vengua on 12:35 AM

 

Wonderful poem, Jean; & so too the latest one at The Nightjar.

# posted by  mark young on 4:07 AM

 

thanks mark. hey, ever have this happen? you write something something you like a LOT, more than anything you've written in awhile -- then you hit a button -- and it disappears, and you can't get it back & can't remember it all. exercise in paying attention. exercise in letting go. arghh! computers.

# posted by  Jean Vengua on 7:45 AM

 

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