transient servitude

transient servitude
(composed of two parts: "proem" and "poem")



it
maybe
needed
to
visit
the cave, the street,
but
these expand
from
an unseen
station outward
over waterings and
wrong lefts
leading to right
circumstances and entrance
is anywhere they look
we are there across
the canal the flowers
are blowing clean
past a tower of marking
these marks betray
prescribed meaning in the untrue there
must be an empty
champagne bottle just around
the corner as chips connect
us as blocks
used to past
in linear but now the half
circle implying the complete
place of departure
in
the
body
out