Six Poems from my radius, a small stone
:
here device wants for sure(ness)
footed
contain/ed/able
map/ped/able
this leads there
a line
where want want(s) goes/ to go
go to
this broken rush
I broken
this rushed
on/over
some called way
:
:
this learning/re
learning
an otter came before others (hedgehog)
in your liking/looking
an order of sorts
other of place today
haunts
mudded boots
the earth does/holds
boot direction
and desire
depth of such words
:
:
too much to hold/
a want for telling
some uncontained way/s
/word/s
saying dear is not enough
dear become [ ] (not erasure)
mapped and
uncontained/able
too afraid of/
too quiet of
attempt/s
naming
a vocabulary
sings
[ ]
:
:
surfac(ing)
re ing
urge shore ward
shore/coast shift
ed/ing
ground
/coast ing
re worded
line:
[ ]
intricate ship
thing well
in my heart
:
:
an unsteady mapping
the inevitable surrounds
it’s easy to consider destination
a desired pointplace
but [ ]
unsteady as water/
\
sea
an endless movement of record
recorded
[ ] outlined/
not empty
name of all the words I’d write
:
:
sounds a closeness/
closing
hold
there are problems
a spelling implies stasis
a voicing fluidity
[ ] name/s/d
one spells stillness
sounds
surprised each after and other
time
[ ]
:
The poems here are from a project called my radius, a small stone. The [ ] appears in Kate Greenstreet’s “case sensitive,” and as she notes is from the correspondence between Zukofsky and Niedecker and indicates “…a signal of deep caring for which words dare not and need not be found.” The italicized “intricate ship / thing well / in my heart,” is from Alice Notley’s “Alice Ordered Me to be Made.”