The Sum of Different Fragments

The Sum of Different Fragments



All backs reflected in diminishing
light rests in the frontal lobe
but there is a heel a spine unbent
lines without the adoration of diagonals
crossings permitted within color
alone in a replicant hotel
room designed for couples
a vertical hovers just above
the bed sheets are the direction
of reference there is the nape of the neck
and a circle of hair infers
the lines looking out onto
landscapes with changing focus
on the shift from other to others
inside the room inside the house
outside in afternoon and back
closer until this becomes the waveform
the viewer is implicated
the angles layered into themselves
until color washing air over gutter seen from behind

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Destroy the material characteristic
of bodies withheld in perfectly
still even the eye sputters
while darkness leans in or
leaves curl toward the sunlight
in this day there can be no response
here is no worthy comparison
no alikeness of fresh bread
and the forearm while preserved
nothing correlates the lemon rind
must mold over and the color blue
is a signal a reminder of yellows
tied to a point even in stagnation
there is speed which orders
the distanced parts achieve unity
of forms of wall tiles of shutters
of doorways of legs in stockings
of the messenger crowd
behind the canvas and walk with the shadow
always disappearing when recognized

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We cannot reduce the subject
our reality is one fixed image
there you are in the morning
facing forward the light sneaking in the window
to your left the glass table
refracts and begins color which falls
into the covering of your face
I salvage to this stationary lemon
within this stilling day
by afternoon I have left
piecing the placement together
looking now at a man with a clarinet
or even a mandolin
while the marble recalls your arm on my right
shrinking with the only cloud in Spain
crossing over our point of reference where
we share this growing shadow
across the street a staircase
separates the length of waves
allowing each angle to supplant the invented eye
at first glance there are merely forms
simple geometrical forms
that openly represent captured