still and let me listen to your skin.}
Hieratic wrack having attained
the age of representation, refutation:
see him so water, so clearly dissolved.
He wonders if he might be the visible,
spontaneous prosody of gesture,
recurrent, irretrievable, and only in part
a god, part of a god: belief fragment
worn smooth by glaciers in retreat,
abraded by the Pleistocene to glimmer,
shine, scuttle and glyph luster. Odor
of artifice, odor of lies
down in the teeming interior sea,
salt flats of Lake Bonneville
where water was slept away.
MICHAEL LIND
On the Cherwell
Old cultures, like old couples, learn
abbreviation, letting gesture serve
as proxy of
reclusive words. Just think of with
what idioms of shrug this punter hints
to friend, to love,
to us and other diners by
the bank tonight of sentiments too fine
for mouth to mold,
conveying what he feels with grip
and glance instead . The boat begins to pitch
because he poled
