13 January 2025

in absentia

some

small talent

barely distinguishable from that of the plethora of other poets in other bodies in other

places

where the wicked flame of life

(flame to life I should have)

and the unnecessary angles of inventiveness glitter like so much
unnecessary early twentieth century european art glittering, that is, off

uniforms
and uniform nations of sensation

(of itself I should have)

until slow times are predictable well

that will never happen