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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Some Ways Of Looking At A Black Mouse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">[to the reader: <br>This is part of a series poem...this one<br>follows 'Instead of You Today One Black Mouse' <br>which should be read before this one for greater<br>context. There is a playing going on in both<br>poems which is not only about love had and lost, <br>a black mouse that shows up, as well as a dove, <br>the day before the lover returns permanently <br>to live in native country of India. There is <br>a Wallace Stevens' playing with notions of <br>poetry, meaning, and more, and a playing with<br>language and signs which shall hopefully lend<br>some jarring but enjoyable takes/slants/songs/<br>glyphs.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">When you see the 'x's<br>in the poem, read<br>'times' as in the <br>math sign for multi-<br>plication. & of course<br>the = sign should <br>be read as 'equals']</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">keep saying/<br>writing 'mouth'<br>when I want to<br>speak of the<br>black 'mouse'<br>which seems to<br>have left soon<br>after it appeared<br>as you departed.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>'Mouth' and<br>'mouse', <br>'black mouth', <br>open and shut.<br> <br>The window, <br>the casings<br>fall, clatter<br>scattering the<br>dove brown <br>upon the space<br>between the<br>escape escaping<br>what is become<br>poise no<br>longer.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>'Mouth', the<br>stronger, is.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Is blackness, <br>I think, insisting</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">its way past thinking<br>into mouth or ink</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">so it is that<br>lips which are</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sometimes pink, <br>swollen, as if to</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">kiss, miss the dove<br>by a wink, and the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">mouse is somewhere<br>else, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">at, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">passed to</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">other spaces</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>still I feel you, <br>you're here, big<br>ears, black fur <br>of Mind<br> <br>still love, I moan <br>this morning saying <br>aloud before the <br>covers are kicked </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>he is gone, <br>hands x 4</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">he is gone, <br>feet x 4</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">he is gone, <br>lips x 4</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">he is gone, <br>heavy groin x 2</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">he is gone, <br>heavy groan x 2</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the chimney flue<br>suddenly<br>in a little<br>breeze from<br>above<br>loosens the ancient<br>ash from the caked<br>brick</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x countless</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">number and the<br>anxious hands, again, <br>against the grain</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 4</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">push one finger</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into that ash<br>writes</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 2 two names</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">plus 1 subtracted</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">from the empty<br>escape</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and another day<br>of counting</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">minutes</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hours</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x seconds</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of seconds is</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">begun begging</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>Love, yes, <br>backing in</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the floor where we<br>lay our cluttered<br>clothes deposed</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x at least 3</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">take me once<br>again one</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x infinity</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into your arms</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 2</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and leave me when<br>you/we are done doing</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 0</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a mere cypher flown<br>sheer up the flue<br>into the blue ash<br>which now the sky </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">is</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">where</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(there is <br> only one<br> sky) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a dove flies<br>into some <br>possibility<br>of memory</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or not</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 35 thousand</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x plus the time it</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">takes for you to exit<br>shedding skins shells<br>(I am a shell) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x infinity into</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the one drain in-<br>to ocean reflecting<br>the ash of what remains <br>of you on the beach <br>bathing soft Junes, <br>the organ grinder<br>smiles/sings 'te <br>amo, amor fati' <br>mellifluously<br>from the boardwalk<br>Coney cotton candy <br>disposed in gales<br>from breaking<br>waves, tumbles, <br>smears, speared<br>on the weathered<br>wood</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x planks from</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">many trees</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x ants in the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">roots lumber-<br>ing their end-<br>less burdens<br>black or red<br>carapaces as<br>if shining<br>sand or sugar<br>unspun</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x grains untold</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as hairs, their<br>bodies follicles<br>delicate, when<br>under the June<br>glass espied<br>magnified count-<br>less, collected, <br>caught upon the<br>webbed threads<br>of your large<br>soft towel with<br>the palm tree<br>sewn upon</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that I have burned<br>in the old grate, <br>a first fire<br>long awaited</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>x 30 years since</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the last, <br>undisturbed by<br>carbon dates</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x all times</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>black mouth<br>yawns sun into<br>the window frame</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">yellow the<br>other flame </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">intended name <br>smears on the <br>glass an accidental<br>pane, Mind</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x hands touching it</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">delicate as trespass<br>what is allowed lace <br>of vision</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x want</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">= at last a sum</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">= a remorse felt</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>memory</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">torques, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into soft </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">teas</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">June</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">steeps</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">tur ns</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">steaming</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">said window</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(and torsos) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">said prints </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">views obscured</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of nothing</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">in particular or</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">special, but </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">troubles, troubles</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">only of passing</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">birds enamored-of</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(their lighter<br>bones) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">are they</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">cloud and shadow, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">merely the steep</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">sun declining ashen</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">into the Jersey side? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">occluded <br>silhouettes<br>contrails <br>glyphs &<br>Maxwell House <br>'Good To The Last Drop'<br>sign, <br>the familiar <br>cup for decades <br>tipped<br>tips &</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">one</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">(out-spilled) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">drop</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 0 suspends</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">o suspends trembling<br>reflected in the water<br>river made of the many</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">countless drops</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x (again) infinity</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x (surprised) my <br>father there<br>(momento mori) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">opening the<br>can all blue with<br>the same cup tilted<br>spilling that dark<br>brown dropp imprinted</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x (the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">dove, to recall, <br>brown, shaped like<br>said drop, now<br>flown, or) finally<br>spilled into water, <br>river currents<br>downward, to bottom<br>pulled sort/sift <br>my father always <br>complaining of grift, <br>a weather man by trade, <br>a cloud man once a pilot <br>WW2 drifting often since/<br>enough into sky, <br>he turns<br>the silver opener<br>butterflied <br>round and round<br>with effort, his<br>arthritic com-<br>plaints upon the<br>ridged silver top<br>of the can blue<br>with coffee <br>'course grind'<br>the better to drip<br>with within &<br>that satisfying<br>hiss of compacted<br>air hissing out<br>from within <br>compressed now<br>released<br>the smell<br>then<br>of coffee fresh<br>not yet brewed<br>in the kitchen</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the twist of<br>the edge jagged<br>silver metal<br>carefully turned<br>with fingers to<br>break the remain-<br>ing stem of metal<br>holding the round<br>to can entire<br>unsealed now try<br>without spilling<br>the grounds<br>out</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x at least 100 thousand</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to guess having no<br>acumen with numbers<br>and math but father's<br>over<br>there in the cup tilted<br>over spilling into<br>o endlessly<br>it's seams, it seems<br>from river bank <br>into memory which <br>is, already <br>over-said<br>overheard redundantly<br>as river<br>and time, <br>this one<br>now recalled<br>to Mind, dad, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">dad<br>the cloud drift<br>and the flows<br>the tides beside<br>the city <br> both sides<br>is as ancient<br>as it always was<br>& is</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">as in the beginning<br>was darkness over deep <br>water & a word, any word<br>really would do it, <br>form something<br>out of deep, of<br>dark, of water<br>which shapes it-<br>self only by outer<br>circumstance, <br>in this case<br>a word<br>leading up to<br>this -</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Palisades cliffs <br>above bridge tilt<br>toward, always, <br>currents, the river<br>over-<br>flows north-<br>wards<br>tides rare defy-<br>ing the moon<br>that other pull, <br>you<br>live the other<br>side of<br>sand<br>the palm sewn<br>swaying adhered<br>to Mind</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">still, to pass the<br>time now</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the sooty hand</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">over black<br>'mouth'<br>or word 'mouse'<br>allude perhaps<br>to river at<br>city's start<br>up from water</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the silver bay<br>capped, remembering<br>frigates</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x countless</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">ferries torn</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">and Tories be-<br>tween seas<br>wars<br>vast to<br>the east</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x duplicating</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">waves, stretches<br>the narrows, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the necks with<br>rocks strewn, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the lonely buoyless<br>depths their vespers</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">intone</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>I am, unkindly, <br>left remembering<br>once was laughter<br>spent</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">seeking out<br>between bodies<br>valleys eternally<br>shifting eluding<br>rapture </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">whisper</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hand over 'mouse'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or 'mouth' conjured</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1 more</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">contraction<br>of sentinel <br>bells against<br>each of each<br>reaching</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 2, the legs</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 4, the lips</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x myriad ones gone</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">before, of murmurers</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">O lover</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of thee</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I adore</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>the arms</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x no more<br>embraces</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>This, just to <br>reintroduce some<br>levity </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">for we<br>were many day-ed</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x merry</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">we merrily played<br>harming no one, <br>not even the<br>mouse unmoved</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">perhaps, watching<br>perhaps, still, <br>still, from beneath<br>the god you insisted<br>be excluded from<br>all our nakedness</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1 too many breaths</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">exchanged, groped</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x many ropes all our</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">wanting </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"></a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>father loves<br>with his cup<br>his pipe songs<br>of love<br>of love will<br>he dance between<br>the violent fasts<br>from love, <br>our mother, with, <br>fast around around<br>& around the danced<br>living room<br>phonograph brass <br>loud plays<br>where June<br>curtains sway<br>me and Mr. Miller<br>(Glenn) </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I stand behind<br>them the curtained<br>dancer entranced<br>entered into/<br>upon a mystery <br>how one could<br>be so, well, <br>swell, so <br>marvelous & <br>so cruel, (upon <br>one silver stem <br>hangs the metal <br>tin top jags <br>tears at <br>memory edge <br>opens facts</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">FACT</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">that there was love, <br>there was love after<br>all</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I can see<br>it smell it<br>feel it there<br>dancing round<br>the living</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">one dropp Mr.<br>Maxwell holds, <br>hold on to &<br>upon goodness<br>brown pulled<br>from below down<br>& dark into deep<br>such this is<br>the riddle it is<br>all now become<br>since you<br>departed, love</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">since you<br>departed I shall<br>count backward by<br>3's then by 4's <br>the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">door which once<br>embraced you now<br>never lets you</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">go</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x brooms</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">or releases</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x all the x's<br>here accounted<br>for, listed, <br>besos as kisses <br>scribbles, notes, <br>letters, <br>no matter<br>the black or<br>blue tide</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of thee<br>O lover</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">what<br>slips out <br>ebbs black<br>back into lapis </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">lapses into what <br>self is</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">uttered/poured, <br>scored trans-<br>parent upon <br>surfaces</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">faces which are<br>even<br>eyes which now<br>glaze with love/<br>loss</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">beside the flue</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">glaze upon the<br>pane</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the black<br>mouse remains</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">stays, <br>is many, <br>a multitude<br>of petals</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 3</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the jasmine<br>unspurned<br>at last</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">at last/least<br>O return<br>soft Junes<br>the lips of<br>which are<br>sometimes<br>pink, of<br>lavender<br>swollen, as if<br>to kiss</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x memory</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x Maxwell the</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">house the cup<br>O Mr. Miller <br>an O'Day serenade<br>plays close <br>...'Hi ho trailus <br>boot whip<br>boo boo daddy<br>floy floy'...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">the late night<br>suppers of chops<br>the peeled onions<br>the laughter the <br>potatoes boil<br>& bubble in the<br>pot then<br>father<br>to dance<br>the butter in<br>the sizzle in<br>the cast iron<br>pan</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">their vespers<br>now descant, <br>descend<br>...'How high <br>the moon...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 1 black 'mouth'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">hungry<br>the<br>dish it has<br>all become<br>feast for<br>black 'mouth'</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">& mouse makes again</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x 3 the antinomies</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">a string </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">of pearls </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">anemones</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">& thee O lover</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">bring all them</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">back, so many, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">to me now </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=535670" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">x Pennsylvania 6-500.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Warren+Falcon">Warren Falcon</a></strong></div>