A lungfish has a mouth like a kiss It rises sweetly to sip from the airfrom a flat earth thanks to Mercator turning a volumetric ellipsoid to a planeand with squinches dissolving domes in the Alhambra solidity was nothingColor was said to be only refraction Heart and Life were folded in our palmsYet a horizon …
Acausality says each moment is the result of itself Philosophy can propose some positions that denyeven themselves that a mind cannot know another mind But knowing does not require identicalityFruit that snaps the branch Virus that kills its host That bloom This poem All the unpredictable accumulating instants on the way to perishing
Great wheel pushing the river behind it Under it the unattractive paddle cat Not many left they say who’d knowso opaque with every state’s topsoil even the water is feeling its way Missouri Mississippi mingling esses You put in a verb just to let off steam They make fun of how you say calliope
Sound effects are a parallel life made of common materials wood blocks for hooves et cetera I hear thunder above a prairieI know to be shaken aluminum I know there is a horse under it not needing to be fed or broken