hinging [2012]

tantamount is wood housing surrender
pitched against sequential anymores
and this volume is a vacancy     a habitat
passing hoax-bones and churches

waiting on the audience     clockwork
wanders amiss the filament staircase
while flickers whisk the rafters
nascent columns become cameras

a background     sitters and pinchers blank
the skeleton banister of approximate strolls
echo is the quickest antique
to divulge its dictionaries     its lisp

or the opposite is an advantaged heft
a temporal cornucopia knell     we
sneak one lozenge of knowledge     a pedal
into an envelope of graduates

for the erection is lumbering     lapsed
a doomed variety of oracle
and the shoulder has reworked its knuckles
as a remnant     an apparition

this hemisphere     throttling wire commands
diminishes penitence and the nude
and knowledge is poise     an instant rummage
through the superficial spine and metal

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meanwhile     the mantle turned a howler and
John tripped down the runner     hinging