INVERSE ALBA #2
I nevertheless saw objects fall, foreseeing they would
Large road, wheat in sticks
Hotel of a house
Where the screen glows all night
Turn me
Blood rilling, deco goodbye
In ampere hour
There’s a horse it’s listening
Eyes/ears gyring down, rounds of ink
Sockets an inkbody, so-called body
A go-between
Phrase it, phrase to it
Run your hands
Think with your hands about ether disturbance
pregària without action
For this is the way
And don’t forget à reculons, through a condolet
Conduit, horse listening its holes
Dented
In con + ∂oleσ
(“feel pain, suffer”)
Our scent will find us
Static and all rather funny
What every hour does to a crime
Gives it the cardiographic flutter, yes, a heart
In zinc bluegrey fall of
Deep chamber nuèit or ∂ay
We writhe and dim
untimed in the narrows
For this is the way
Dented and naught beside
Run your hands
Turn me
You stood the (nights), the sun, the bare bitter glades
but faith without works is death also, I know
Faith without works is death also
THE ADDRESSABLE
Circumspect is a noun-verb tailing
is it cold or cld, firing off misspelt acute and cut
the hang and the dart, the know and the press
wan or want, to say sorry I’ve not seen
vapor ride from surf or supine travel, langueo,
can’t sift flour, appear to be fearful, I say “appear”
sorry I’m not a cleft honey leg cross, slender shade on pale wood
pimento, baby eel or some graffitibright
thing in modigliani hand
your best eater of strip and earth taste, papillae aware
and of course you’d want the body who did that
a vital attuned someone to say, yes, I see what you’re seeing
deep-red rampart bayonne, all-at-the-throat kind of beauty
mutinous sharp star of land
no I didn’t go or do, didn’t
just pack up and ad[d] or ad[vert] it, but the word inbetween:
Averted. Sat in frames, addressable. Anything but
coastal or love or pulse weaving. Come on, say infirm say ashen.
Say I overuse “inchoate” and I’m the age I am.
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Jane Lewty is the author of Bravura Cool (1913 Press: 2013), winner of the 1913 First Book Prize in 2011. She is currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam. Recent poems can be found in The Volta, jubilat and Apartment.