from in, Still, mooring
Teresa Miller

     

A want wants that belies wanting,
a body pacing inside the body      smaller
                              expandable/contractable.
                Before the words from the subject mouth
      in the object ears were the words
                                 in the ears of the ears,
               in the visual ear, the letters in the rows
                              that don't stutter, that rise
               in stacks of lines of lines.

The body inside reaches a smaller hand
               to touch the visual of an other,
         sights a regard,
                       a   rough   skinned   shoulder   blade,
               an exit from the larger body,
         finds the tunnel of a mouth connected to a mouth,
              passage away from pacing.

This the hearing hears, this this,
              this thud, this gritty shift to a new center,
              an outside the body, a recentrifugal.

//   Advance   //