passe-partout


strophe/anti-strophe
fugue and kontrapunkt
dismemberment/reclamation


literary twiddling, assorted
intersecting possibilities
(de)construction

copy/write doxa/nesva

we learned the duties of love and silence
of obdurate loneliness and anguish
our duty to witness fear and death
and the arduous task of structuring dreams

we learned the duties of twilight and desolation
the mysterious firmament of the stars
the inexorable rituals of waiting
the secrets of the bow and its invisible arrow
of the night and the fires illuminating it

we learned of joy
light and shadows
magic and science
a paradise, the serpent
a flight of birds
mythology and enigma

we learned men’s ways
and seized others meant only for gods