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Wednesday, August 11

avec la brume du matin on ne voit plus rien,
ni les moules, ni la mer, ni le continent

there is the closeness of this fog
then the far-ness of everything else

i go with no small purpose
to the fig tree in the yard

every day it replenishes and
i return, hands and pockets full

the canary in the pine tree
knows only one note

even here i cannot escape narrative.

1 comment:

j. said...

how funny -- i read this for the first time exactly 24 hours ago, written down on paper. (the first mail for a new address! how lovely. second was my returned damage deposit.)
everything else on the first page is a surprise, it's all new news of the near past. i'll read slowly, but i'm so glad you've been posting!