Excerpt from Euclid Shudders

by Mark Tardi

series 29

Assemble its reciprocus

with a vacant knot
blood silence

disaffected by

weathered in wire

antic pillars
sunken skyward

the plastic velocity

otherwise unseen

folding sleep
between two keys

some indistant auricle

identical orphan
said with shorn eyes



series 31

The pivot chord is B which sounds as A in the new key of E. Folds of sleep between clouded and out loud. Its portion of night remains leaf-long and less than a foot away. A ladder of liquid. Or city forgetting to ask. Exactly like a statue. Old fires and profitable ghosts. A phrase worth repeating.

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