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Pomepleat 1






Catherine Walsh

                           bracketing
                                [lives

      scales
                                      chain mailed
eyes held
                  wide
          open    by
                    will
power
                              see
                            next?
   gyrating                 on    the line
stumbling            over thresholds
balancing                in  doorways

       of    tremendous
towards
a spherical                       light
    depth stretching
focus
over
           points                stasis
           evanescent barely perceptible
        movement
    some
        difference              opined

        heard nothing
but   tiny   shiftings    shuntings
      cracklings   driftings
saw nothing
but basic shapes             round ball
bouncing a curve        on
an inclined plane           towards
       a meniscus
            called sky
   pliable
                interlocking

a term
life

these marks   we make
      hold in mind
ear  heart  brain   for you
to take     us    to
  understand
           whorl
leaf vein
         snail shell
hoar frost
                 a directing
      of  desire

    selection
                   of  matter

                       interpretation
                            of events
    or is that
intent?




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